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

1 sense of serine

Sense 1
serine -- (a sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine)
       => 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")