Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless, dextrorotatory compound, C18H32O16, crystallizing in plates which melt at 210° C.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
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- noun organic chemistry A crystallizable,
sugar -like substance, with a slightlysweetish taste, obtained from thegentian .
Etymologies
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gentian + -ose
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By 1928, he had evolved and confirmed, among others, the structures of maltose, cellobiose, lactose, gentiobiose, melibiose, gentianose, raffinose and the glucoside ring structure of normal sugars.
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