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asparagine

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /əˈspæɹ.ə.dʒiːn/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: amino acid

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noun

Meaning 2

a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid

History

Etymology

From French asparagine, from Latin asparagus + French -ine. By surface analysis, asparagus + -ine.

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: аспарагин (asparagin) — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Catalan: asparagina — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Chinese Cantonese: 天冬酰胺 — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Chinese Mandarin: 天冬酰胺 (tiāndōngxiān'àn) — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Czech: asparagin — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Esperanto: asparagino — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Finnish: asparagiini — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • French: asparagine — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • German: Asparagin — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Greek: ασπαραγίνη (asparagíni) — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Hungarian: aszparagin — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Ido: asparagino — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Japanese: アスパラギン (asuparagin) — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Kazakh: аспарагин (asparagin) — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Mongolian: аспарагин (asparagin) — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Polish: asparagina — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Portuguese: asparagina — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Romanian: asparagină — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Slovak: asparagín — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3
  • Spanish: asparagina — nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3