English

glycostructure

From glyco- + structure.

Proto-Hellenic *dlukús

Ancient Greek γλυκύς ‘sweet’

Proto-Indo-European *strew- ‘to strew, spread out’

Proto-Italic *strowō

Latin struō ‘to pile up; to build’

Latin structūra ‘a fitting together, building’

Middle French structure

Today it means

noun A structure of glycoproteins.

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

Etymograph / glycostructure