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  • adjective Resembling an enzyme or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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enzyme +‎ -like

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  • The viroids that Sanjuán and his colleagues studied contain a stretch of RNA called a hammerhead enzyme that speeds up the viroid's duplication in an enzymelike way.

    *Science* Blog Portal 2009

  • The viroids that Sanjuán and his colleagues studied contain a stretch of RNA called a hammerhead enzyme that speeds up the viroid's duplication in an enzymelike way.

    *Science* Blog Portal 2009

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