OLIGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oligo mean? 

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

1. (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

oligo; oligonucleotide

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

base; nucleotide (a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA))

Domain category:

biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)