Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Betaine

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Betaine


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(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.