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lectin

lec·tin

UK/ˈlɛktɪn/ uncommon

noun

1.

any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus

Origin

From Latin lēctus (“chosen”) + -in. Coined by W.C. Boyd in 1954.

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