l 1 e 1 c 3 t 1 i 1 n 1
6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus
originFrom Latin lēctus (“chosen”) + -in. Coined by W.C. Boyd in 1954.
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