taurine
See also: Taurine
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Etymology 1 edit
From Latin taurīnus, from taurus (“bull”).
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taurine (comparative more taurine, superlative most taurine)
- Pertaining to a bull; bull-like.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- I am the Ionian Minotaur, the mightiest
Of all Europa’s taurine progeny—
I am the old traditional Man-Bull;
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bull-like
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taurine (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry, biochemistry) An amino-sulfonic acid, NH2CH2CH2SO3H, that has regulatory functions in mammals.
- Synonym: tauric acid
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amino-sulfonic acid
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taurine
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taurīne