| Glucoside (glucoside) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Glu"co*side |
| [See
Glucose.] (Chem.) |
One of a large series of
amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely
distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental
agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are
frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of
dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic
substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and
glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the
nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the
sugar carbohydrates.
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