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raffinose

raf·fi·nose

a sweetish, crystalline trisaccharide, CHO5HO, derived from sugar beets, cottonseed, etc.

Origin of raffinose

from French raffiner, to refine from re-, re- + affiner, to refine from a- ( from Classical Latin ad, to) + fin, fine + -ose, -ose

raffinose

noun

A trisaccharide, C₁₈H₃₂O₁₆, composed of glucose, fructose, and galactose. It is obtained from sugar beets and cottonseed meal and is present in many legumes.

Origin of raffinose

French from raffiner to refine re- again ( from Old French; see re- . ) affiner to refine ( from Old French) ( a- to ) ( from Latin ad- ; see ad- . ) ( fin fine ) ( from Old French; see fine¹. )

raffinose

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural raffinoses)

(biochemistry) A trisaccharide, comprised of galactose, glucose and fructose, that is widely distributed in many plants

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Soc., 1903, 85, 1305), who showed that cane sugar and maltose were a-glucosides, and raffinose an a-glucoside of melibiose.
Boletus edulis, in the Oriental Trehala and in ergot of rye; melibiose, C12H22011, formed, with fructose, on hydrolysing the trisaccharose melitose (or raffinose), C18H32016.5H20, which occurs in Australian manna and in the molasses of sugar manufacture; touranose, C12H22011, formed with d-glucose and galactose on hydrolysing another trisaccharose, melizitose, C,8H32016 2H20, which occurs in Pinus larix and in Persian manna; and agavose, C12H22011, found in the stalks of Agave americana.

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