Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adenosine_diphosphate

1 sense of adenosine diphosphate

Sense 1
adenosine diphosphate, ADP -- (an ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage)
       => nucleotide, base -- (a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA))