cavin

== English == === Etymology 1 === From French cavin (same meaning), ultimately from Latin cavus. ==== Noun ==== cavin (plural cavins) (military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place. === Etymology 2 === From cav(eola) +‎ -in. Coined in J. Vinten et al. (2005), “Identification of a major protein on the cytosolic face of caveolae”, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, volume 1717, number 1, pages 34-40:. ==== Noun ==== cavin (biochemistry) A type of protein that is involved in forming the caveola of many vertebrate cells. === Anagrams === vinca == Catalan == === Verb === cavin inflection of cavar: third-person plural present subjunctive third-person plural imperative