Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Zoology Having many teeth or toothlike processes.
- adjective Chemistry Having several or multiple possible binding sites.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many teeth or tooth-like processes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having many teeth, or toothlike processes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having many
teeth - adjective chemistry (of a ligand) Having multiple points at which it is attached to a central atom
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Examples
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1960 I returned to investigations in coordination chemistry, and decided to study the effects of bi - and multidentate phenolic ligands on the catalytic properties of the vanadyl group, VO.
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