seminose

English

Etymology

Latin semen seed + glucose.

Noun

seminose (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, dated) A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow syrup; D-mannose.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for seminose in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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