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BETAINE
betaine
(noun) a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
betaine (countable and uncountable, plural betaines)
(uncountable, organic compound) 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-
(countable, organic chemistry) Any derivative of this compound.
(countable, organic chemistry, by extension) Any similar compound, based on sulfur or phosphorus etc, having an onium ion with no hydrogen atom adjacent to the anionic atom.
Anagrams
• Beatine, antibee
Source: Wiktionary
Be"ta*ine, n. Etym: [From beta, generic name of the beet.] (Chem.)
Definition: A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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