urate

English

The white portion of Komodo dragons' excrement is urate.

Etymology

From uric acid +‎ -ate (“salt or ester”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹeɪt/

Noun

urate (plural urates)

1. (organic chemistry) Any salt of uric acid.

   The deposition of urate crystals in the joints leads to gout.

Translations

any salt of uric acid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尿酸鹽 / 尿酸盐 (niàosuānyán)

• Czech: močan m, urát m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: uraatti (fi)
• French: urate (fr) m
• Indonesian: urat (id)
• Japanese: 尿酸塩 (にょうさんえん, nyōsan'en)
• Polish: moczan (pl) m

Anagrams

• Tauer, Ureta

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

urate m (plural urates)

1. urate

Further reading

• “urate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.