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seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

e of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

s from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.

An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea.

l term to include the whole species. Hornblende schist (Geol.), a hornblende rock of schistose structure.

By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

See Keratose.

See Lactose.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of milk sugar (lactose).

A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

also milk adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc. -- Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below). -- Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle (Silybum marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness. -- Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush. -- Milk tooth (Anat.), one of the…

A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.…

In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.

drates widely distributed in plants, as in fruits, gums, woods, hay, etc.) which yield pentoses on hydrolysis.

otassium carbonate obtained from the ashes of wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium). -- Sal acetosell\'91 Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt of sorrel. -- Sal alembroth. (Old Chem.) See Alembroth. -- Sal ammoniac (Chem.), ammonium chloride, NH4Cl, a white crystalline volatile substance having a sharp salty taste, obtained from…

Sarmentose.

Schistose.