Definitions for cellulose

cellulose cel·lu·lose

Spelling: [sel-yuh-lohs]
IPA: /ˈsɛl yəˌloʊs/

Cellulose is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in cellulose (ceelllosu).

Definitions for cellulose

noun

  1. an inert carbohydrate, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n, the chief constituent of the cell walls of plants and of wood, cotton, hemp, paper, etc.

Origin of cellulose

1745-55; New Latin cellul(a) live cell (see cellular) + -ose2

Examples for cellulose

(b) 'Saccharification' of cellulose, cellulose hydrates, and hydrocellulose.

Starch, wood, gum, and cellulose were also included in the investigations.

The product is a cellulose of the second group of the classification.

In this respect, it is like the cellulose of fruits and vegetables.

(b) Yield of furfural from cellulose, oxy- and hydro-cellulose.

From the peat of lower depths no cellulose could be obtained.

cellulose dinitrate-dinitrobenzoate, and cellulose trinitrate-dinitrobenzoate.

A determination of alkali therefore determines the percentage of cellulose.

(p. 61) The author continues his investigations of the oxidation of cellulose.

The cellulose group has been further differentiated by later investigations.

Word Value for cellulose
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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