polyadenylate

noun

poly·ad·e·nyl·ate | \ ˌpäl-ē-ˌad-ᵊn-ˈil-ˌāt, -ə-ˈden-ə-ˌlāt\

Medical Definition of polyadenylate

(Entry 1 of 2)

: poly(a)

polyadenylate

transitive verb

polyadenylated; polyadenylating

Medical Definition of polyadenylate (Entry 2 of 2)

: to add one or more segments of poly(A) to some mechanism must exist in the cytoplasm for polyadenylating messenger RNA— Benjamin Lewin