Definitions for acrasins

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acrasins a·cra·sin

Spelling: [uh-krey-sin]

IPA: /əˈkreɪ sɪn/

Acrasins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in acrasins (aacinrss).

Definitions for acrasins

noun

1. a chemotactic substance, identical with cAMP, secreted by myxamebas of cellular slime molds and attracting other myxamebas to aggregate and form a pseudoplasmodium.
2. a chemotactic substance, identical with cAMP, secreted by myxamebas of cellular slime molds and attracting other myxamebas to aggregate and form a pseudoplasmodium.

Origin of acrasins

1945-50; New Latin Acras(iales) an order of cellular slime molds (Acras(is) a genus, so named from the lack of fusion between the cells (Greek; see a-⁶,