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glucosinolates (medicine)


glucosinolates
Substituted thioglucosides. They are found in rapeseed (brassica campestris) products and related cruciferae. They are metabolised to a variety of toxic products which are most likely the cause of hepatocytic necrosis in animals and humans.


polecat (iou)



polecat noun. ME.
[Origin uncertain: perh. from Old French pole, poule chicken, fowl: see CAT noun1.]
A dark-brown European carnivorous mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, noted for its fetid smell; (freq. with specifying word) any of various Other mustelids of the genus Mustela or related genera. Also (US), a skunk. ME.
fig. A detested or immoral person, esp. a prostitute. L16.
Comb.: polecat ferret a brown variety of the ferret.