Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A glycoside, C20H27NO11, commonly found in seeds and other plant parts of many members of the rose family, such as kernels of the apricot, peach, and bitter almond, which breaks down into hydrocyanic acid, benzaldehyde, and glucose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline principle (C20H27NO11 + 3H2O) existing in bitter almonds, and in the leaves, etc., of species of the genus Prunus and of some of its near allies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry a
glycoside ofbenzaldehyde andhydrogen cyanide found inbitter almonds , and in thekernels of some otherfruit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bitter cyanogenic glucoside extracted from the seeds of apricots and plums and bitter almonds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The kernels contain amygdalin, which contains cyanide.
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Thus if an animal that has been given amygdalin is then injected with emulsin, hydrocyanic acid will be formed in the blood stream and death will take place at once.
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A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Science Education at the University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary development intended to give that tree an advantage over others in its surroundings.
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A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Science Education at the University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary development intended to give that tree an advantage over others in its surroundings.
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The toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary development intended to give that tree an advantage over others in its surroundings
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary
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A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Science Education at the University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary development intended to give that tree an advantage over others in its surroundings.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary
WN.com - Articles related to Are Bees Addicted To Caffeine And Nicotine? 2010
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A group of researchers at the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Science Education at the University of Haifa-Oranim speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary development intended to give that tree an advantage over others in its surroundings.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Bitter apricot kernels naturally contain a compound called amygdalin, which has the potential to release cyanide when the kernels are ingested.
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