purine

English Thesaurus

1. a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	alkali, base, alkali, base,
definition	:	any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water (noun.substance)

2. any of several bases that are derivatives of purine (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	a, adenine,
definition	:	(biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	g, guanine,
definition	:	a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine (noun.substance)