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pal•in•drome
Pronunciation: (pal'in-drōm"), [key]
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n.
1. a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as
Madam, I'm Adam or
Poor Dan is in a droop.
2. Biochem.a region of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides is identical with an inverted sequence in the complementary strand:
GAATTC is a palindrome of CTTAAG. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
