ISOTHIOCYANATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does isothiocyanate mean? 

• ISOTHIOCYANATE (noun)
  The noun ISOTHIOCYANATE has 1 sense:

1. a family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations

  Familiarity information: ISOTHIOCYANATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISOTHIOCYANATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("isothiocyanate" is a kind of...):

chemical irritant (a substance producing irritation)

Holonyms ("isothiocyanate" is a substance of...):

mustard; table mustard (pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds)

horseradish; horseradish root (the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning)

mustard (any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica)

radish; Raphanus sativus (Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw)

Allium cepa; onion; onion plant (bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb)

 Context examples 

Isothiocyanate is the fundamental structure in many synthetic and biological active compounds.

(Isothiocyanate, NCI Thesaurus)

A juice extracted from watercress containing high amounts of phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC), with potential chemopreventive and antitumor activities.

(Phenethyl Isothiocyanate-containing Watercress Juice, NCI Thesaurus)

An isothiocyanate found in cruciferous vegetables with chemopreventive and potential antitumor activities.

(Phenethyl isothiocyanate, NCI Thesaurus)

Broccoli sprout extract contains a high amount of sulforaphane, a naturally occurring isothiocyanate.

(Broccoli sprout extract, NCI Thesaurus)

A conjugate consisting of keyhole-limpet hemocyanin (KLH) and fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) with potential immunostimulating activity.

(KLH-FITC, NCI Thesaurus)

A conjugate consisting of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) conjugated with folate with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Folate-FITC, NCI Thesaurus)

An isothiocyanate with a benzyl group (a methyl group connected to a phenyl ring with structure C6H5CH2-).

(Benzyl Isothiocyanate, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

An isothiocyanate with an allyl group (-C-C=C).

(Allyl Isothiocyanate, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Microscopy of specimens stained with fluorescent dye (usually fluorescein isothiocyanate) or of naturally fluorescent materials, which emit light when exposed to ultraviolet or blue light (From MSH 2001).

(Fluorescence microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called phenethyl isothiocyanate.

(PEITC, NCI Dictionary)