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

1 sense of ornithine

Sense 1
ornithine -- (an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is important in the formation of urea)
       => amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid -- (organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group; "proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids")