Contextualizebeta

laetrile

noun

Etymology

A contraction of l-mandelonitrile, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”) + -o- + nitrile.

Definitions

  1. A drug, derived from the amygdalin of apricot kernels, once thought capable of destroying…

    A drug, derived from the amygdalin of apricot kernels, once thought capable of destroying cancer cells by the release of cyanide but later banned in the United States by the FDA.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for laetrile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA