cyanogenicadj.
/sʌɪənəʊˈdʒɛnɪk/ Biochemistry.
Capable of producing (hydrogen) cyanide; containing a cyanogen group in the molecule.
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1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cyanogenic.
1968 M. Pyke Food & Society viii. 114 Hydrangeas contain cyanogenic glycosides, and..the Journal of the American Medical Association described the painful symptoms suffered by a horse which ate a potted hydrangea.
1985 Arch. Biochem. & Biophysics 243 361 (heading) Isolation and characterization of two cyanogenic β-glucosidases from flax seeds.
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cyanoˈgenesis n. cyanogenic property.
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cyanogenesis1939
1939 Jrnl. Genetics 38 357 (heading) Genetics of cyanogenesis in white clover.
1985 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. B. 82 747/2 Cyanogenesis in all species may have been derived from a common cyanogenic protoheliconian ancestor.
cyanogeˈnetic adj.
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1902 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 199 409 Besides lotusin and dhurrin,..only one other cyanogenetic glucoside is definitely known.
1957 W. M. Hailey Afr. Surv. (rev. ed.) xii. 826 The root of the bitter variety contains cyanogenetic glucoside which develops hydrocyanic acid.
1979 R. D. Montgomery in Vinken & Bruyn Handbk. Clin. Neurol. XXXVI. xx. 515/1 The presence of cyanogenetic glucosides may have a defensive role in protecting the plant against invasion by insects or possibly from grazing by animals.
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