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English

fluorophenylalanine

From fluoro- + phenylalanine.

A compound of fluoro- + phenylalanine

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

English fluoro-

Today it means

noun Any of several isomeric fluoro derivatives of phenylalanine used to inhibit bacteriophage replication

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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