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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An organic base, C16H23NO5, existing as a sulphocyanate in white mustardseed. The free base is quite unstable, and has not been obtained.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry An alkaloidal amine found in black mustard seeds, considered a choline ester of sinapic acid.

Etymologies

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Latin sinapi, sinapis, mustard, Ancient Greek: compare French sinapine.

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