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Allicin vs Allison - What's the difference?

allicin | allison |

As a noun allicin

is an organic compound, diallyl thiosulfinate, obtained from garlic, with a variety of medicinal and antibacterial properties.

As a proper noun Allison is

{{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.

allicin

English

Noun

  • (organic compound) An organic compound, diallyl thiosulfinate , obtained from garlic, with a variety of medicinal and antibacterial properties.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 26, author=Susan Sampson, title=Touring Ontario's West Coast, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=The "neck" is not soft and braidable, the cloves are big and fat, there's a round basal plate at the root, and the content of allicin (a healthful compound) is five times that of offshore garlic, Rowe boasts. }}

    Related terms

    * allin

    See also

    * (wikipedia "allicin")

    allison

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname; mostly of persons born before 1950.
  • taken into general use in the 1940s; usually interpreted as a spelling variant of Alison.

    • Quotations

    * 1956 : Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book One, Chapter 4, *: Allison MacKenzie's father, for whom the child had been named, died when she was three years old. * 1994 , She Walks These Hills , Scribner's , ISBN 0684195569, page 81: *: "Allison ?" Surely that was a girl's name. *: "It's after Davey Allison , the race car driver. He got killed right before the baby was born. Tracy and me wanted to honor his memory." It was a precise little speech. She must have explained the name many times.

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