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glycosinolates

glycosinolates is the plural of glycosinolate.

Meaning of glycosinolate

Noun

glycosinolate (plural glycosinolates)

  1. Any of a family of toxic nitrogen-containing sugar sulfates found in all brassicas and many related plants. In the presence of myrosinases, they produce the isothiocyanates responsible for the pungent bite in the flavor of these plants.

Questions about glycosinolates

What is glycosinolates the plural of?
Glycosinolates is the plural of glycosinolate.

Words near glycosinolates in the dictionary

  1. glycosimeters
  2. glycosine
  3. glycosines
  4. glycosinine
  5. glycosinolate
  6. glycosinolates
  7. glycosinolic acid
  8. glycosis
  9. glycosite
  10. glycosites
  11. glycoslated

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