Hyphenation of nuclease

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word nuclease? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

nu-cle-ase

Definitions of nuclease:

1.	General term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units

Synonyms of nuclease:

noun	enzyme

Last hyphenations of this language

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