| a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, sweet-tasting alkaloid, C5H11NO2, usually obtained from sugar beets or synthesized from glycine, used chiefly in medicine. |
betaine be·ta·ine (bē'tə-ēn', -ĭn)
n.
A sweet crystalline alkaloid occurring in sugar beets and other plants and used in the treatment of muscular degeneration.
betaine (bē'tə-ēn', -ĭn) Pronunciation Key
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