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Aleurone
noun · 78% connection
An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modificat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Amylaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Amyloid
noun · 78% connection
a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Amylose
noun · 78% connection
One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Arrowroot
noun · 78% connection
A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a simil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Atmosphere
noun · 78% connection
A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Bathybius
noun · 78% connection
A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Capillary
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Cellulose
noun · 78% connection
The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Chlorophyll
noun · 78% connection
Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Chromatophore
noun · 78% connection
One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Cleistogamous
adjective · 78% connection
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Colorless
adjective · 78% connection
Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorles…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Cytode
noun · 78% connection
A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are prese…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Dextrose
noun · 78% connection
A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Edelweiss
noun · 78% connection
alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
Egranulose
adjective · 78% connection
Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: certain, minute, whitish, colorless, granules.
