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To tease, or comb, as wool. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]

Sour like vinegar; acetous.

Having two bristles.

Same as Cespitose.

y stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [Written also cæspitose.]

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

Chalky; cretaceous. [Obs.] Ash.

A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.

Dumose.

Same as oedematous.

Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]

milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive.

An isohyetose line.

Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.

See Galactose.

Covered with clay; miry.

A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

A variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.