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pyrimidine
noun
- a colorless, liquid, crystalline organic compound, CHN, the fundamental form of a group of bases, some of which are constituents of nucleic acid
- any of several basic substances produced by the decomposition of nucleoproteins and having a pyrimidine-type molecule, as thymine, cytosine, or uracil
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