Definitions for trehalose

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trehalose tre·ha·lose

Spelling: [tree-huh-lohs, trih-hah-lohs]

IPA: /ˈtri həˌloʊs, trɪˈhɑ loʊs/

Trehalose is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 704 anagrams from letters in trehalose (aeehlorst).

Definitions for trehalose

noun

1. a white, crystalline disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , occurring in yeast, certain fungi, etc., and used to identify certain bacteria.

Origin of trehalose

First recorded in 1860-65; trehal(a) + -ose²

Examples for trehalose

trehalose seems to serve as the reserve food for fungi in much the same way that sucrose does for higher plants.

The quantity of trehalose in such plants reaches a maximum just before spore formation begins.

trehalose appears to replace sucrose in those plants which contain no chlorophyll and do not elaborate starch.