glycyphyllinn.
/ɡlʌɪsɪˈfɪlɪn//ɡlɪsɪˈfɪlɪn/ Chemistry.
A rhamnoside, known only from Smilax glycyphylla, having phloretin as the aglycone.
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1881 Wright & Rennie in Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXXIX. 240 Were its identity and distinctiveness established, the term glycyphyllin might perhaps be applied to it.
1966 A. H. Williams in T. Swain Comp. Phytochem. xvii. 304 In the monocotyledons we have the isolated example of glycyphyllin in some samples of one species of Smilax in the Liliaceae.
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