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isomeric with sucrose, extracted from the manna of the larch (Larix). [Written also melicitose.]

A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus).

An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.

Any of a group of sugars of the formula C5H10O5, as arabinose; -- so called from the five carbon atoms in the molecule. They are not fermented by yeast.

and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem.

Of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist.

Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

See Shist, Schistose.

Same as Stigmatic.

Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.

Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. Gray.

A ventouse. [Obs.] Holland.

ucture. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia. Chlorite slate, a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

Comatose.

of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.

rom Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.

he variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.