Crossword-Solution: LIGNIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lignin | n. | A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LIGNIN | anagram | LINING |
We have 6 clues for the answer “LIGNIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Component of wood | 1 answer |
| Constituent of wood | 1 answer |
| Relative of cellulose. | 1 answer |
| complex polymer occurring in certain plant cell walls making the plant rigid | 1 answer |
| the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates | 1 answer |
| BINDS TO CELLULOSE FIBERS TO HARDEN AND STRENGTHEN CELL WALLS OF PLANTS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with LIGNIN (5)
Cellulose and lignin are the two substances that make up the hard, permanent, and woody parts of plants; these materials cannot be digested by most soil animals.
Digestive wastes of primary decomposers are thoroughly inoculated with microorganisms that can consume cellulose and lignin.
Some of these differences are due to variations in lignin content which is highly resistant to decomposition, but speed of decomposition is mainly influenced by the amount of protein and mineral nutrients contained in the leaf.
Certain fungi can digest cellulose and lignin, as can the symbiotic bacteria inhabiting a cow's rumen.
Even cellulose and lignin, insoluble structural materials that plants cannot convert back into soluble materials, are made from molecules that once were in solution.
Quotes with LIGNIN (1)
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1958–1999).