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hæmerythrin

hæmerythrin

See also: haemerythrin and Hämerythrin

English

Noun

hæmerythrin (countable and uncountable, plural hæmerythrins)

  1. Obsolete form of hemerythrin.
    • 1906, John Arthur Thomson & Marion Isabel Newbigin, Outlines of Zoology, page 788:
      The most important respiratory pigments are hæmoglobin, hæmocyanin, and hæmerythrin; some others have been named by different authors, but their respiratory significance seems uncertain.