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Ayin vs Axin - What's the difference?

ayin | axin |

As nouns the difference between ayin and axin

is that ayin is the sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others) while axin is a fatty and varnish-like substance produced in Mexico by an insect, Coccus axinus, used in the arts and locally in medicine, being regarded as a good vulnerary and resolvent.

ayin

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Noun

  • The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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    axin

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    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (biochemistry) A large docking protein that in humans is encoded by the AXIN1 gene, and that binds APC, GSK-3?, casein kinase I?, and ?-catenin.