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

1 sense of trna

Sense 1
transfer RNA, tRNA, acceptor RNA, soluble RNA -- (RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA))
       => ribonucleic acid, RNA -- ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell; "ribonucleic acid is the genetic material of some viruses")