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

1 sense of uracil

Sense 1
uracil, U -- (a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine)
       => nucleotide, base -- (a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA))