noun Download 🔗Share A diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta- positions; it is the basis of three of the bases found in DNA and RNA: thymine, uracil and cytosine Examples : "In biology class, we learned that cytosine, thymine, and uracil, three important building blocks of DNA and RNA, are all types of pyrimidine bases. " biochemistry biology chemistry compound Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading