noun🔗ShareA handbell used for summoning monks."The abbot rang the codons to call the monks to prayer in the chapel. "religionritualsoundbell-ringingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet."The trumpet player carefully polished the codons of his instrument to make it shine before the concert. "musicpartsoundChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation."The genetic code uses codons, three-letter sequences of DNA, to specify which amino acid to add when building a protein. "biologybiochemistryorganismstructurepartsciencefunctionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
