Definitions for Glycine

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Glycine gly·cine

Spelling: [glahy-seen, glahy-seen]

IPA: /ˈglaɪ sin, glaɪˈsin/

Glycine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in Glycine (cegilny).

Definitions for Glycine

noun

1. a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, H 2 NCH 2 COOH, the simplest amino acid: used chiefly in organic synthesis and biochemical research. Symbol: G. Abbreviation: Gly;

Origin of Glycine

First recorded in 1850-55; glyc- + -ine²

Examples for Glycine

Zein, the principal protein of corn contains no glycine, lysine, or tryptophane.

glycine chinénsis, is given to Wistèria, and is the finest climbing shrub of the phaseolious tribe.

The plant generally known as Soja hispida is by modern botanists referred to glycine soja.

The chief cultivation appears to be Coix, glycine, and some rice, but the produce seemed very small.

The only cultivation is potatoes, a few years since introduced, and which answers admirably, some turnips and glycine tuberosa.

glycine frutéscens, a beautiful native climbing shrub, known in our gardens under that name, but is properly Wistèria frutéscens.