Amygdalin Definition

ə-mĭgdə-lĭn
noun
A crystalline glycoside, C20H27NO11, present in bitter almonds: it is used as a flavoring agent and is a source of laetrile.
Webster's New World
A glycoside, C20 H27 NO11 , 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.
American Heritage Medicine

(biochemistry) A glycoside of benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide found in bitter almonds, and in the kernels of some other fruit.

Wiktionary

Origin of Amygdalin

  • From Late Latin amygdalus almond tree from Greek amygdalos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Amygdalin Sentence Examples

  • The enzymes which act upon glucosides are many; the best known are emul sin and myrosin, which split up respectively amygdalin, the special glucoside of certain plants of the Rosaceae; and sinfgrin, which has a wide distribution among those of the Cruciferae.

  • A continuation of their work on bitter almond oil by Liebig and Wohler, who remained firm friends for the rest of their lives, resulted in the elucidation of the mode of formation of that substance and in the discovery of the ferment emulsin as well as the recognition of the first glucoside, amygdalin, while another and not less important and far-reaching inquiry in 'which they collaborated was that on uric acid, published in 1837.

  • It occurs free in bitter almonds, being formed by an enzyme decomposition of amygdalin.

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