allicin

allicin

See also: Allicin

English

Etymology

Latin allium (“garlic”) +‎ -cin (“modeled after -mycin, -cin, produced by bacteria”).

Noun

allicin (countable and uncountable, plural allicins)

1. (organic chemistry) An organic compound, diallyl thiosulfinate, obtained from garlic, with a variety of medicinal and antibacterial properties.
   • 2009 August 26, Susan Sampson, “Touring Ontario's West Coast”, in Toronto Star‎:

     The "neck" is not soft and braidable, the cloves are big and fat, there's a round basal plate at the root, and the content of allicin (a healthful compound) is five times that of offshore garlic, Rowe boasts.

Related terms

• allin

Coordinate terms

• (sulfur compounds from garlic): ajoene

Translations

organic compound

Dutch: allicine Finnish: allisiini German: Allicin Italian: allicina

Polish: allicyna Portuguese: alicina f Spanish: alicina f Swedish: allicin

See also

• allicin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lilacin