Etymograph

English

heteromacromolecule

From hetero- + macromolecule.

Formed from hetero- + macromolecule

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros

Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros

Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’

English hetero-

Today it means

noun A mixture of two or more different (but normally related) macromolecules

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