Crossword-Solution: INULIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inulin | n. | A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “INULIN”
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| Starchy rootstuff. | 1 answer |
| Starchy substance found in some plant roots | 1 answer |
| polysaccharide | 2 answers |
| Plant starch | 2 answers |
| starch-like substance | 2 answers |
| Dietary fiber | 4 answers |
| Carbohydrate | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with INULIN (5)
Chemically the active ingredients of the herb are taraxacin, and taraxacerine, with inulin (a sort of sugar), gluten, gum, albumen, potash, and an odorous resin, which is commonly supposed to stimulate the liver, and the biliary organs.
The roots contain starch; and the ashes of the plant burnt when green yield carbonate of potash abundantly, with nitre, and inulin.
Chemically, it contains a crystalline principle, resembling camphor, and called "helenin"; also a starch, named "inulin," which is peculiar as not being soluble in water, alcohol, or ether; and conjointly a volatile oil, a resin, albumen, and acetic acid.
Inulin is allied to starch, and its crystallized camphor is separable into true helenin, and alantin camphor.
These effects are due to "pyrethrin" contained in the plant, which is an acid fixed resin; also there are present a second resin, and a yellow, acrid oil, whilst the root contains inulin, tannin, and other substances.
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1956–2016).