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- [guh-lak-tohs]
- /gəˈlæk toʊs/
- /ɡə.ˈlæktos/
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- [guh-lak-tohs]
- /gəˈlæk toʊs/
Definitions of galactose word
- noun galactose a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages. 1
- noun galactose A sugar of the hexose class that is a constituent of lactose and many polysaccharides. 1
- noun galactose a white water-soluble monosaccharide found in lactose. Formula: C6H12O6 0
- noun galactose a white, crystalline monosaccharide, prepared by the hydrolysis of lactose 0
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Origin of galactose
First appearance:
before 1865 One of the 28% newest English words
First recorded in 1865-70; galact- + -ose2
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Parts of speech for Galactose
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galactose popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
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noun galactose
- sugar — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- starch — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- cellulose — Cellulose is a substance that exists in the cell walls of plants and is used to make paper, plastic, and various fabrics and fibres.
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