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Forkhead
FORK'HEAD
,Noun.
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forkhead
forkhead
English
Noun
forkhead (plural forkheads)
- (obsolete) An arrow with a barbed tip.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- (biochemistry) A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA