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glutamine

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A nonessential amino acid, C5H10N2O3, occurring widely in plant and animal tissue and proteins and produced commercially for use in medicine and biochemical research.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colorless crvstalline compound, H2N.CO. CH(NH2).CH2.CH2COOH, found, together with asparagin, widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom. It is deposited in slender needles. Also called A-glutamamide and, incorrectly, glutamin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biochemistry A nonessential amino acid C5H10N2O3 found in most animal and plant proteins.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[glut(en) + amine.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

gluta- +‎ amine

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Gln

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. amino acid
  2. aminoalkanoic acid

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. acetylcholine
  2. alpha-tocopherol
  3. arginine
  4. asparagine
  5. biotin
  6. citrulline
  7. creatine
  8. creatinine
  9. dynorphin
  10. eicosapentaenoic
  11. franklin
  12. inducible
  13. inositol
  14. lysine
  15. nitric oxide
  16. noradrenaline
  17. pepsin
  18. prostaglandin
  19. resveratrol
  20. ribose
  21. solanine
  22. vasopressin

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