Word: forkhead
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: fork
head
Definition: A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
Morphemes:
Affix: fork
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
Affix: head
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.