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Betaine Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Betaine has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets

2

A sweet, crystalline compound (not an alkaloid), trimethylammoniumacetate, found in sugar beet and similar plants, sometimes used to treat muscular degeneracy; the zwitterion (CH₃)₃N⁺CH₂COO⁻

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
alkaloid
Rhyming Words
ine sine vine line mine bine zine wine dine eine pine gine kine rine fine nine tine cine meine reine
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