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AEQUORINS
Definition of AEQUORINS
noun
plural of aequorin
noun
A photoprotein, isolated from luminescent jellyfish and other marine organisms, composed of two distinct units: the apoprotein apoaequorin and the prosthetic group coelenterazine.
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Word DNA
AEQUORINS inherits its ancestry from its root, AEQUORIN.
How it is built
Same root, AEQUORIN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AEQUORINS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
AEQUORINS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEINOQRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found AEQUORINS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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