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cyanogenic, a. Biochem.|saɪənəʊˈdʒɛnɪk| [f. cyano- + -genic.] Capable of producing (hydrogen) cyanide; containing a cyanogen group in the molecule. Also cyanogeˈnetic a.
1902Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. CXCIX. 409 Besides lotusin and dhurrin,..only one other cyanogenetic glucoside is definitely known. 1957W. M. Hailey Afr. Survey 1956 xii. 826 The root of the bitter variety contains cyanogenetic glucoside which develops hydrocyanic acid. 1961Webster, Cyanogenic. 1968M. Pyke Food & Society viii. 114 Hydrangeas contain cyanogenic glycosides, and..the Journal of the American Medical Association described the painful symptoms suffered by a horse which ate a potted hydrangea. 1979R. D. Montgomery in Vinken & Bruyn Handbk. Clin. Neurol. XXXVI. xx. 515/1 The presence of cyanogenetic glucosides may have a defensive role in protecting the plant against invasion by insects or possibly from grazing by animals. 1985Arch. Biochem. & Biophysics CCXLIII. 361 (heading) Isolation and characterization of two cyanogenic β-glucosidases from flax seeds. Hence cyanoˈgenesis, cyanogenic property.
1939Jrnl. Genetics XXXVIII. 357 (heading) Genetics of cyanogenesis in white clover. 1985Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. B. LXXXII. 747/2 Cyanogenesis in all species may have been derived from a common cyanogenic protoheliconian ancestor. |