a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
Word origin
C20: cycl(ohexyl-sulph)amate
cyclamate in American English
(ˈsaɪkləˌmeɪt; ˈsɪkləˌmeɪt)
noun
a synthetic salt derived from an organic acid, C6H11NHSO3H, esp. the sodium or calcium salt, with an extremely sweet taste: formerly used as a sweetener
Word origin
cycl(ohexylsulph)amate < cyclohexyl, C6H11, a monovalent radical + sulfamate, ester of sulfamic acid (HSO3NH2)