Definitions for glucoside

glucoside glu·co·side

Spelling: [gloo-kuh-sahyd]
IPA: /ˈglu kəˌsaɪd/

Glucoside is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 503 anagrams from letters in glucoside (cdegilosu).

Definitions for glucoside

noun

  1. any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.

Origin of glucoside

First recorded in 1865-70; glucos(e) + -ide

Examples for glucoside

Even the common linseed contains a glucoside which breaks up into sugar, prussic acid, and a ketone.

Scillain, or Scillitin, a glucoside which has been separated from the bulbs of the common squill.

Emulsine has the property of being able to hydrolyse the glucoside amygdalin to glucose, benzaldehyde, and hydrocyanic acid.

Erythrophlein is an alkaloid, not a glucoside, and is obtained from the bark of the Erythrophlœum guineense (West Africa).

The upas of Singapore is also said to contain with strychnine a glucoside similar to antiarin.

It is a glucoside, yielding on boiling with dilute acids a sugar.

Fisetin was also found as a glucoside compound in Rhus rhodanthema by Perkin.

Strophantin is a very poisonous substance which belongs physiologically to this group, but does not seem to be a glucoside.

He showed that the fustin-tannide could be decomposed by acetic acid into tannic acid and a glucoside, fustin C46H42O21.

Contains the glucoside digitalin and other active principles.

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