Meaning Of The Word Hemicellulose

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Hemicellulose Meaning

Hemicellulose Definition
Hemicellulose Definition

What's The Definition Of Hemicellulose?

hemicellulose in American English
a polysaccharide with less than 150 polymer units of various sugars, that is extracted from plants, esp. woody and corn fiber, by dilute alkalies
noun: any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose

hemicellulose in British English
noun: any of a group of plant polysaccharides that occur chiefly in the cell wall

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