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Xylose

Definition: Xylose

Xylose

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Xylose

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonym: Xylose

Synonym: wood sugar (n). (additional references)

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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).

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Expression: Xylose

Expression using "xylose": Uridine Diphosphate Xylose. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "xylose": C-d-xylose.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Xylose

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

xylose

11

d xylose

10

d test xylose

2
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Modern Translation: Xylose

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

   

Portuguese

  

xilose. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ксилоза. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ksiloza. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

xilosa. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

xylos. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

odun şekeri, ksiloz. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ксилоза. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Xylose

Derivations

Words beginning with "xylose": xyloses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Xylose"

Words rhyming with "xylose" (pronounced 'Xy"lose'): Callose, fibrillose, Filose. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Xylose

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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