Betaine

What do we mean by betaine?

A sweet-tasting crystalline alkaloid, C5H11NO2, found in sugar beets and other plants, used to treat certain metabolic disorders, especially an enzyme defect that causes excessive levels of homocysteine in the blood and urine. noun

Any of several alkaloids with similar structures. noun

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. It has a sweetish taste. noun

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- noun

Any derivative of this compound. noun

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

A sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets noun

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 derivative of this compound.

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

Words that are spelled similarly to betaine:
betaine, betadine, bedaine.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word betaine:
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Words that rhyme with betaine:
cetane, smitane.

Adjectives that are often used to describe betaine:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective betaine:
hydrochloride, hcl, dehydrogenase, transferase, aldehyde, hydrochloric, supplementation, chlor, acid, synthesis, acts, oxidation.

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