betaine

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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⁻ uncountable
  2. Any derivative of this compound. countable
  3. Any similar compound, based on sulfur or phosphorus etc, having an onium ion with no hydrogen atom adjacent to the anionic atom. broadly,countable

词形变化

betaines plural

词汇关系

衍生词
arsenobetaine cocamidopropyl betaine polybetaine sulfobetaine

词源

Etymology tree
Latin bēta
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English betaine
From New Latin, from Latin bēta (“beet”) + -ine.
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