n :  a crystalline aldose sugar C₅H₁₀O₅ that is not fermentable with ordinary yeasts and occurs esp. as a constituent of xylans from which it is obtained by hydrolysis .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  cel·lose  so·le·us 
 
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