Chem. Formerly -ine. [f. L. amygdala almond + -IN chem. form.] C20H27NO11 + 3H3O; a peculiar substance found crystalline in the kernels of almonds and other stone fruit, and amorphous in the leaves of the cherry-laurel, etc. It is one of the GLUCOSIDES.
1651. N. Biggs, New Dispens., ¶ 303. Whatsoever swims a top, is of the essentiall oyle; but the rest Amygdaline.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sci., I. 351/1. The principle of almonds (amygdaline).
1875. Wood, Therap. (1879), 58. Amygdalin … is nearly, if not quite, without effect upon the organism.
