asparagine
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From French asparagine, from Latin asparagus + French -ine. By surface analysis, asparagus + -ine.[1]
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asparagine (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
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nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
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asparagine f (plural asparagines)
Descendants edit
- → English: asparagine
Further reading edit
- “asparagine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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asparagine f
- plural of asparagina