a white crystalline sugar, C12H22O11.2H2O, obtained by Berthelot in 1857 from trehala.

A carbohydrate, C12H22O11 or (C6H10O5)n, obtained from the roots of couch-grass, Triticum repens, and so named by Müller (Arch. Pharm. (1873) II…

A plant polysaccharide consisting of galactose residues; = galactan, n. Now disused.

A polysaccharide found in higher plants as a constituent of certain types of cell wall, and deposited on parts of the plasma membrane in response…

Of or pertaining to the Florideæ (cf. florideous, adj.) (now often considered a subclass of the Rhodophyceæ or red algæ); floridean starch, a…

A lævulosan (fructan); esp. any fructan of the kind produced by certain bacteria, in which the linking of adjacent fructose units is between the…

A polysaccharide occurring in food storage vesicles in some of the golden algae, now regarded as related to laminaran.

Any of a class of neutral polysaccharides composed of arabinose and galactose units and found in the cell walls of plants and mycobacteria.

= laminaran, n.

A polysaccharide consisting entirely or chiefly of glucose residues, such as cellulose and starch; = glucosan, n. 2.

An insoluble polysaccharide of the cell wall of yeast, used in the assay of properdin.

A polysaccharide which is the main constituent of agar and consists of alternating residues of d-galactose and 3,6-anhydro-l-galactose.

A polysaccharide that consists chiefly of glucose residues and occurs in seaweeds of the genus Laminaria and other brown algae.