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Definition: Xylose |
XyloseNoun1. A sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Xylose \Xy"lose\, noun. [Prefix xylo- -ose.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A pentose sugar occurring among the products of acid hydrolysis of wood and hemicelluloses. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: XyloseSynonym: wood sugar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Xylose |
| Specialty definitions using "xylose": Xylans. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Xylose" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (xylose). |
Expression using "xylose": Uridine Diphosphate Xylose. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "xylose": C-d-xylose. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
xylose | 11 |
d xylose | 10 |
d test xylose | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "xylose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الزيلوز سكر الخشب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 木糖. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | xylose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | xylose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قندمتبلوروغیرقابل تخمیر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puusokeri (a mixture of sugars prepared from wood by hydrolysis of the polysaccharides in it and consisting mainly of glucose, and arabinose, mannose, with some xylose and smaller amounts of galactose, wood sugar), ksyloosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | xylose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Xylose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δοκιμασία ξυλόζης (xylose test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kszülóz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | xilosio, silosio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ylosexay xilose. (various references) ксилоза. (various references) ksiloza. (various references) xilosa. (various references) xylos. (various references) odun şekeri, ksiloz. (various references) ксилоза. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "xylose": xyloses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "xylose" (pronounced 'Xy"lose'): Callose, fibrillose, Filose. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-s-x-y" | |
-1 letter: loxes. | |
-2 letters: leys, lose, lyes, lyse, oles, oxes, oyes, sexy, sloe, sole. | |
-3 letters: els, lex, ley, lox, lye, oes, ole, ose, oxy, sel, sex, sly, sol, sox, soy, yes. | |
-4 letters: el, es, ex, lo, oe, os, ox, oy, so, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-s-x-y" | |
+1 letter: xyloses. | |
+2 letters: ethoxyls, sexology. | |
+3 letters: acetoxyls, oxyphiles. | |
+4 letters: exiguously, oxygenless, xylophones, xylotomies. | |
+5 letters: carboxylase, dexterously, exogenously, explosively, hydroxylase, phyllotaxes, phylloxeras, prophylaxes, protoxylems, vexatiously. | |
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