malamide

English

Etymology

Blend of malic +‎ amide

Noun

malamide (countable and uncountable, plural malamides)

1. (organic chemistry) The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “malamide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)