Etymograph

English

heterooctamer

From hetero- + octamer.

A compound of hetero- + octamer

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 An octamer which contains two or more different monomer species.

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Etymograph / heterooctamer