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–noun Chemistry, Pharmacology.

a white, bitter-tasting, water-soluble, glycosidic powder, C₂₀H₂₇NO₁₁, usually obtained from bitter almond seeds and the leaves of plants of the genus Prunus and related genera: used chiefly in medicine as an expectorant.

[Origin: 1645–55; < L amygdal(a) almond + -in²

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n. A glycoside, C₂₀H₂₇NO₁₁, commonly found in seeds and other plant parts of many members of the rose family, such as kernels of the apricot, peach, and bitter almond, which breaks down into hydrocyanic acid, benzaldehyde, and glucose.

[From Late Latin amygdalus, almond tree, from Greek amygdalos.]

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