Usually means: Nitrogenous base in DNA, RNA.
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  1. adenine: Merriam-Webster
  2. adenine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adenine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adenine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adenine: Vocabulary.com
  6. adenine: Wordnik
  7. adenine: Wiktionary
  8. adenine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. adenine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. adenine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. adenine: Dictionary.com
  12. adenine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Adenine (programming language), Adenine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. adenine: Rhymezone
  15. adenine: FreeDictionary.org
  16. adenine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. adenine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. adenine: Merriam-Webster

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  1. adenine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. adenine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Adenine (A): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
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  10. adenine: Medical dictionary
  11. Adenine (A): Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adenine)

noun:  (biochemistry, genetics) A base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.

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