Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A peculiar saccharine matter (C24H36O9) obtained from the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra.
Wiktionary
- n. The main sweet-tasting compound from liquorice root, thirty to fifty times as sweet as sucrose (table sugar).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.
Examples
“Ikeda K, et al. A long-term glycyrrhizin injection therapy reduces hepatocellular carcinogenesis rate in patients with interferon-resistant active chronic hepatitis C: a cohort study of 1249 patients.”
“A team of scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children have revealed that a compound called glycyrrhizin might be an effective tool in battling life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections resulting from severe burns.”
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
“Levitra Without A Prescription - Chinese licorice rootChinese licorice root is composed of a glycoside called glycyrrhizin helping the production of testosterone and suppressing sexual libido.”
“Deglycyrrhizinated licorice DGL is licorice devoid of glycyrrhizin, a compound that can raise blood pressure.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Andrew Weil: How To Relieve Indigestion--Naturally
“In Japan and China, glycyrrhizin has been used successfully to treat hepatitis B, a disease characterized by inflammation of the liver.”
“Since DGL does not contain glycyrrhizin acid, it is unlikely that it offers the full benefits of preparations containing the whole licorice root.”
“More recently, foreign studies show that glycyrrhizin, the main active ingredient in licorice root, has anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and anti-allergic properties.”
“The Japanese are investigating glycyrrhizin as a possible cancer treatment.”
“Licorice contains a host of ingredients including one called saponin which contains the chemical glycyrrhizin.”
“On a separate note, in July 2003, German scientists have shown that glycyrrhizin, the chemical that provides the sweetening flavor for Licorice, kills SARS virus in the test-tubes”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glycyrrhizin’.
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Words that are Spelled Unfairly
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Pseudodemons
Potential dukes, duchesses, and chief petty officers of hell.
Inspired by whichbe's demongering.ashgabat, súrsaðir hrútspungar, arrghus, spizzerinctum, duniewassal, xiphiplastron, agassiz, thrombokinase, squalus suckleyi, rauwolfia serpentina, pipistrelle, qualtagh and 66 more...
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Awesome Names for Your Heavy Metal Band
onslaught, gamecock, chthonic, hoarfrost, kernicterus, keelhaul, simulacrum, clavicle, interregnum, catafalque, gravamen, blunderbuss and 47 more...
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What the H?
Words that I could probably spell correctly without having to look them up every single damn time were it not for an apparently extraneous and randomly placed h.
jodhpur, diarrhea, ankh, myrrh, hemorrhoids, baghdad, rhombus, rhythm, hemorrhage, sheikh, catarrh, maharajah and 21 more...
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Dudgeon and Dragging
They're not actually from fantasy or science fiction writing, but they certainly sound as though they could have been...
sourcender, zargari, glycyrrhizin, shibboleth, dyschezia, physiocrat, elastomer, skellefteälven, guadalquivir, alluvion, pentacrinite, hydrophyte and 22 more...
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zetadiction
words that embody life
hydrae, kleptocracy, curmudgeon, wordie, risotto, qi, pulchritudinous, micropolitan, schadenfreude, neolithic, experimentalist, zeta and 477 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1181 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
rapscallion, ramahanukwanzmas, cockamamie, nincompoop, hemidemisemiquaver, antiinterdenomina..., cattywampus, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, blunderbuss, brobdingnagian, tintinnabulation and 126 more...
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Words
I've looked up.
addax, aitch, effulgence, quaternary, glycyrrhizin, guernsey, gnomon, clepsydra, augury, vacua, gossypol, diol and 21 more...
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bark
liminal space forms
cinnamon, sycamore, ponderosa, Leucadendron arge..., cork, cinchona, angostura, barque, sassafras, arf, yip, quebracho and 88 more...
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Wordie words I didn't know
Stuff I leaned on the innernets & intertubes... ...specifically here at Wordie.
aeolian, terpsichorean, comestibles, glycyrrhizin, arctophile, buggerated fuckst..., vibrational coupling, tabescent, prunes and prisms, cunctatory, intertextualism
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