Arabinose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A crystalline pentose sugar, C5H10O5, obtained from plant polysaccharides such as gums and hemicelluloses.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An aldopentose that occurs most often in polysaccharides such as hemicellulose and pectin.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A crystallizable sugar, C6H12O6, prepared by the action of sulphuric acid on arabin.
    • Word Usage
    "If the mixture contains arabinose and the indicator dye, the difference between Ara+ and Ara− is revealed, as if by heating invisible ink: they show up as white and red colonies, respectively."
     
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