betaine

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Definition of betaine in English Turkish dictionary

betain

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Definition of betaine in English English dictionary

A sweet, crystalline compound (not an alkaloid), trimethylammoniumacetate, found in sugar beet and similar plants, sometimes used to treat muscular degeneracy; the zwitterion (CH3)3N+CH2COO-

Any similar compound, based on sulfur or phosphorus etc, having an onium ion with no hydrogen atom adjacent to the anionic atom

Any derivative of this compound

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; called also lycine and oxyneurine

A sweet, crystalline compound (not an alkaloid), trimethylammoniumacetate, found in sugar beet and similar plants, sometimes used to treat muscular degeneracy; the zwitterion (CH{3}){3}N[+]CH{2}COO[-]

{i} type of alkaloid obtained from the sugar beet and used in medicine

a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets

It has a sweetish taste

Hyphenation

be·ta·ine