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Glycine   /glˈaɪsˌin/  /glˈaɪsən/   Listen
Glycine

noun
1.
The simplest amino acid found in proteins and the principal amino acid in sugar cane.
2.
Genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean.  Synonym: genus Glycine.



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"Glycine" Quotes from Famous Books



... employed as currency instead of coin; every man carries small scales about him, and purchases are made with it so low as to the weight of a grain or two of padi. Various seeds are used as gold weights, but more especially these two: the one called rakat or saga-timbangan (Glycine abrus L. or Abrus maculatus of the Batavian Transactions) being the well-known scarlet pea with a black spot, twenty-four of which constitute a mas, and sixteen mas a tail: the other called saga-puhn and ...
— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden


Words linked to "Glycine" :   rosid dicot genus, soya, genus Glycine, soja bean, soya bean, Glycine max, Papilionoideae, amino acid, soybean, soja, subfamily Papilionoideae, soy, soybean plant, aminoalkanoic acid


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