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A bitter cyanogenic glucoside extracted from the seeds of apricots and plums and bitter almonds
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amygdalin
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Amygdalin (from Ancient Greek : "almond"), is a poisonous cyanogenic glycoside found in many plants, but most notably in the seeds (kernels) of apricot , bitter almonds , apple , peach , and plum . Since the early 1950s, both amygdalin and a modified form ...
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Amygdalin \A*myg"da*lin\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.
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n. a bitter cyanogenic glucoside extracted from the seeds of apricots and plums and bitter almonds
Wiktionary
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n. (context biochemistry English) a glycoside of benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide found in bitter almonds, and in the kernels of some other fruit
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The explanation is that occasional individual almond trees have a mutation in a single gene that prevents them from synthesizing the bitter-tasting amygdalin.
Eucalyptus amygdalin (Labille ) is the tallest known tree, specimens attaining as much as 480 feet, exceeding in height even the Californian Big Tree (Sequoia gigantea).
The Bitter Almond seed also contains a ferment Emulsin, which in presence of water acts on the soluble glucoside Amygdalin yielding glucose, prussic acid and the essential oil of Bitter Almonds, or Benzaldehyde, which is not used in medicine.
Most wild almond seeds contain an intensely bitter chemical called amygdalin, which (as was already mentioned) breaks down to yield the poison cyanide.