Usually means: Chain of amino acids linked.
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  1. polypeptide: Merriam-Webster
  2. polypeptide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polypeptide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polypeptide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polypeptide: Vocabulary.com
  6. polypeptide: Wordnik
  7. polypeptide: Wiktionary
  8. polypeptide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. polypeptide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. polypeptide: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. polypeptide: Dictionary.com
  12. Polypeptide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. polypeptide: Rhymezone
  14. polypeptide: FreeDictionary.org
  15. polypeptide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. polypeptide: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polypeptide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. polypeptide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Polypeptide: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
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  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
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  8. polypeptide: Medical dictionary
  9. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Polypeptide: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Science (4 matching dictionaries)
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  1. polypeptide: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See polypeptides as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (polypeptide)

noun:  (organic chemistry) Any polymer of (same or different) amino acids joined via peptide bonds.
noun:  (biochemistry) Any such polymer that is not folded into a secondary structure of a protein.
noun:  (biochemistry) A small protein containing up to 100 amino acids; see also oligopeptide.

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