Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: loathe
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
betaine: Meaning and Definition of
be•ta•ine
Pronunciation: (bē'tu-ēn", -in&wdspcbi-tā'ēn, -in), [key]
— n. Chem., Pharm.
- a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, sweet-tasting alkaloid, CHNO, usually obtained from sugar beets or synthesized from glycine, used chiefly in medicine.
See also:
- betaine (Thesaurus)
