| sola | <botany> A leguminous plant (aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc. Alternative forms: solah, shola. Origin: Native name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| solan goose | <zoology> The common gannet. Origin: Icel. Sla; akin to Norw. Sula. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solanaceae | Family of flowering plants (order solanales). Among the most important are potatoes, tomatoes, capsicum (green and red peppers), tobacco, and belladonna. (12 Dec 1998) |
| solanaceous | <botany> Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceae, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solanaceous alkaloids | Alkaloids, mainly tropanes, elaborated by plants of the family solanaceae, including atropa, hyoscyamus, mandragora, nicotiana, solanum, etc. Some act as cholinergic antagonists; most are very toxic; many are used medicinally. (12 Dec 1998) |
| soland | <zoology> A solan goose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solania | <chemistry> Solanine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solanicine | <chemistry> An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance. See: Solanine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solanidine | <chemistry> An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste. See: Solanine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solanidine glucosyltransferase | <enzyme> From potatoes; catalyses formation of gamma-chaconine (3-beta-o-glucosylsolanidine) from udp-glucose and solanidine Registry number: EC 2.4.1.- Synonym: solanidine udp glucose glucosyltransferase (26 Jun 1999) |
| solanine | <chemistry> A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste. Synonym: solonia, and solanina. Origin: L. Solanum nightshade. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solanochromene | The chromenol (isomeric) form of plastoquinone-9. Synonym: solanochromene. (05 Mar 2000) |
| solanoid | <medicine> Resembling a potato; said of a kind of cancer. Origin: Solanum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solanum | <botany> A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. Tuberosum), the eggplant (S. Melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade. Origin: L, nightshade. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| solapsone | Tetrasodium 1,1'-[sulfonylbis(p-phenyleneimino)] bis [3-phenyl-1,3-propanedisulfonate];a leprostatic agent. Synonym: solapsone. (05 Mar 2000) |