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Lignan
Meaning
Noun
●
In Organic chemistry:
Any of a
class
of
phenylpropanoid
(propylbenzene) type of
molecules
found in
essentially
all
plants
,
generally
dimeric
or higher order, and
produced
by
secondary
metabolic pathways
branching
off of
aromatic
amino acid
biosynthesis
, in some
cases
having associated
antioxidant
or
estrogenic
(phytoestrogenic) activities; having
in common
with
lignin
the
phenylpropanoid
monomers
, where
lignin
is a
random
oxidative
polymerization
of the same
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