Crossword-Solution: PECTOSE 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Pectose n. An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom,
esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is
converted into substances of the pectin group.

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PECTOSE anagram ESCOPET

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Fruit substance. 1 answer
insoluble carbohydrate found in unripe fruit 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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The Professor, therefore, proceeded to carefully investigate the nature of these various substances, and in the result he found that the vasculose and pectose were soluble in an alkali under certain conditions, and that the cellulose was insoluble.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 Various 2005
The Carbohydrates comprise starch, sugar, gum, mucilage, pectose, glycogen, &c.; cellulose and woody fibre are carbohydrates, but are little capable of digestion.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan 2005
Green fruit contains two substances, called "pectase" and "pectose" and, by the action of the sun in ripening, these substances change into pectin which makes fruit jelly.
Mother's Remedies T. J. Ritter 2006
Dried Turkey Figs, as imported, contain glucose (sugar), starch, fat, pectose, gum, albumen, mineral matter, collulose, and water.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie 2006
Chemically, they contain also albumen, sugar, pectose, dextrin, fat, cellulose, mineral matters, and water, but less sugar than turnips or carrots.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie 2006
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1958).