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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.…

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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets
  3. 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.
  4. A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and alsooccurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from whichit is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called alsolycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.
  5. n a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets