melezitose

English

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Etymology

From French mélèze (“larch”) and melitose.

Noun

melezitose (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
    Melezitose can be partially hydrolyzed to glucose and turanose.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 melezitose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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