Monellin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sweet protein found in Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Monell + -in, named in 1972 after the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, United States, where it was isolated and characterized.

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