glycine
[glahy-seen, glahy-seen]
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noun Biochemistry.
a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, H2NCH2COOH, the simplest amino acid: used chiefly in organic synthesis and biochemical research. Abbreviation: Gly; Symbol: G
Origin of glycine
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Glycine chinénsis, is given to Wistèria, and is the finest climbing shrub of the phaseolious tribe.
The American Flower Garden DirectoryThomas Hibbert
Glycine frutéscens, a beautiful native climbing shrub, known in our gardens under that name, but is properly Wistèria frutéscens.
The American Flower Garden DirectoryThomas Hibbert
The chief cultivation appears to be Coix, Glycine, and some rice, but the produce seemed very small.
The only cultivation is potatoes, a few years since introduced, and which answers admirably, some turnips and Glycine tuberosa.
The plant generally known as Soja hispida is by modern botanists referred to Glycine soja.
glycine
noun
Word Origin for glycine
C19: glyco- + -ine ²
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glycine
[glī′sēn′, -sĭn]
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