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glucoalkaloid

glucoalkaloid is the alternative form of glycoalkaloid.

Meaning of glycoalkaloid

Noun

glycoalkaloid (plural glycoalkaloids)

  1. Any of a class of alkaloid glycosides, most of which are poisonous.
    • “The potato’s skin is teeming with glycoalkaloids,” she continued, “toxins so indestructible, they can easily survive both cooking and frying.”2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 316

Forms of glucoalkaloid

pluralglucoalkaloids

Questions about glucoalkaloid

What is glucoalkaloid the alternative form of?
Glucoalkaloid is the alternative form of glycoalkaloid.

Words near glucoalkaloid in the dictionary

  1. Gluckstein
  2. Glucksteins
  3. gluco-
  4. glucoacetyldigoxide
  5. glucoacovenoside
  6. glucoalkaloid
  7. glucoalkaloids
  8. glucoalliside
  9. glucoalyssin
  10. glucoamylase
  11. glucoamylases

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