acyanogenicadj.
/(ˌ)eɪˌsʌɪənə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/, U.S. /eɪˌsaɪənəˈdʒɛnɪk/ Botany.
Designating plants that do not produce cyanide.
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1941 Jrnl. Genetics 42 49 The two types of plant, cyanogenetic and acyanogenetic, are morphologically alike and grow side by side in nature.]
1962 Nature 17 Mar. 1109/1 Corkill makes passing reference to the damage done to the acyanogenic plants in his plots by slugs.
1982 J. B. Harborne Introd. Ecol. Biochem. (ed. 2) iii. 83 In central Russia where the winter temperature is very low, clover populations are acyanogenic.
2009 V. Lebot Trop. Root & Tuber Crops iii. 37 There is a desire to develop very low or even acyanogenic cassava.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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