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perillaldehyde

perillaldehyde noun: perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.

Noun

perillaldehyde (uncountable)

  1. perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.
    • Molecular dynamics simulations have shown that essential oil constituents like perillaldehyde or perillyl alcohol carrying more hydrophilic groups require more energy to traverse the membrane and have a 700-fold slower flip-flop rate than the nonpolar constituent limonene (Witzke et al., 2010).2015 July 28, Morten Hyldgaard et al., “Isoeugenol has a non-disruptive detergent-like mechanism of action”, in Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI

Origin of perillaldehyde

Blend of perilla + aldehyde.

Questions about perillaldehyde

What does perillaldehyde mean?
Perillaldehyde means perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.
What part of speech is perillaldehyde?
Perillaldehyde is a noun.

Words near perillaldehyde in the dictionary

  1. perilipin
  2. perilipins
  3. perilithon
  4. perill
  5. perilla
  6. perillaldehyde
  7. perillartine
  8. perillas
  9. perilled
  10. perilless
  11. perilling

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