(ˈ)glü|tamik- noun
Etymology: glutamic International Scientific Vocabulary glut- (from gluten ) + amic (in amic acid )
: a crystalline amino dicarboxylic acid HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2 )COOH that exists in three optically isomeric forms and occurs usually as the dextrorotatory l -form both free and combined in glutamine and many proteins in plants and animals, that is usually obtained by hydrolysis of gluten or from the waste waters of beet-sugar manufacture or by fermentation, and that takes part in transaminations and related metabolic reactions in the living organism; α-amino-glutaric acid