Pentoses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 234 anagrams from letters in pentoses (eenopsst).
German (1890); see pent(a)-, -ose2
They bear the same relation to the pentose sugars as do the dextrosans to glucose, etc.
From the solution the author isolated crystalline galactose, but failed to isolate a pentose.
The time increase was less pronounced in the presence of the three pentose sugars used.
But most of the natural gums yield a mixture of galactose, some pentose, and some complex organic acid.
It is usual to regard furfural as invariably produced from a pentose residue.