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From taxonomic name Quisqualis (syn. of Combretum), from which the acid was extracted.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
quisqualic acid
Today it means: -2-amino-3-(3,5-dioxo-1,2,4-oxadiazolidin-2-yl)propanoic acid An agonist of some excitatory amino acid receptors Full definition →