forkhead
nounEtymology From fork + head.
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Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
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The forked end of a rod in a knuckle joint or similar.
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Obsolete An arrow with a barbed tip.
- With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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Euphemistic Euphemistic form of fuckhead.