Plural of dormin; multiple instances or types of the plant hormone that induces dormancy.
Plural form of dormin, derived from Latin dormire (to sleep) plus chemical suffix -in. Used in botanical research from the 1930s onward.
When botanists discovered plant sleep chemicals, they made the plural 'dormins'—because plants often have multiple molecular sleep switches!
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