FLAVIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flavin mean? 

• FLAVIN (noun)
  The noun FLAVIN has 1 sense:

1. a ketone that forms the nucleus of certain natural yellow pigments like riboflavin

  Familiarity information: FLAVIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAVIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ketone that forms the nucleus of certain natural yellow pigments like riboflavin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("flavin" is a kind of...):

ketone (any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals)

Holonyms ("flavin" is a substance of...):

hepatoflavin; lactoflavin; ovoflavin; riboflavin; vitamin B2; vitamin G (a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss)

 Context examples 

Within an organism, nanaomycin A is first reduced by flavin or NADH dehydrogenase then rapidly autooxidized leading to the production of singlet molecular oxygen (O2-).

(Nanafrocin, NCI Thesaurus)

Subcellular respiratory organelles containing catalase and hydrogen peroxide-producing flavin oxidases among its enzymatic constituents, which carry out an essentially oxidative type of metabolism

(Peroxisome, NCI Thesaurus)