Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glycosinolate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gly-cosi-no-late
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of toxic nitrogen-containing sugar sulfates found in all brassicas and many related plants. In the presence of myrosinases, they produce the isothiocyanates responsible for the pungent bite in the flavor of these plants.

Inflected Forms

glycosinolates (plural)

Questions

What does glycosinolate mean?: Any of a family of toxic nitrogen-containing sugar sulfates found in all brassicas and many related plants. In the presence of myrosinases, they produce the isothiocyanates responsible for the pungent bite in the flavor of these plants.

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