forkhead

A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.

Noun

  1. A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
  2. The forked end of a rod in a knuckle joint or similar.
  3. 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,...
  4. Euphemistic form of fuckhead.

Origin

From fork + head.

Forms

forkheads