n :  a white amorphous tasteless polysaccharide (C₆H₁₀O₅)x that constitutes the principal form in which carbohydrate is stored in animal tissues, occurs esp. in the liver and in muscle and also in fungi and yeasts, and resembles starch in molecular structure and in the formation of only glucose on complete hydrolysis - called also animal starch  .
 
 
 
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