Word: bisphosphates
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bis
phos
phates
Definition: Plural of bisphosphate. A diphosphate, especially a compound with two phosphate groups attached to a sugar residue
Morphemes:
Affix: bis-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: A variant of di- used to indicate that the component that does not take the prefix occurs twice in the compound: a bisoxide is of the form B2O (cf. dioxide for XO2)
Affix: phosphate
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: phosphore
Language: fr
Decoded: phosphore
PoS: Noun
Meaning: phosphorus
Affix: -ate
Language: fr
Decoded: -ate
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: -ate
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form regular plurals of nouns.