ARABINOSE

Etymology

Noun

arabinose (plural arabinoses)

(carbohydrate) An aldopentose that occurs most often in polysaccharides such as hemicellulose and pectin.

Source: Wiktionary


Ar"a*bin*ose`, n. (Chem.)

Definition: A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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