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Meaning of "hemicellulose" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEMICELLULOSE

hemicellulose  [ˌhɛmɪˈsɛljʊˌləʊz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEMICELLULOSE

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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Hemicellulose is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEMICELLULOSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hemicellulose

A hemicellulose is any of several heteropolymers, such as arabinoxylans, present along with cellulose in almost all plant cell walls. While cellulose is crystalline, strong, and resistant to hydrolysis, hemicellulose has a random, amorphous structure with little strength. It is easily hydrolyzed by dilute acid or base as well as myriad hemicellulase enzymes. Most common molecular motif of hemicellulose...

Definition of hemicellulose in the English dictionary

The definition of hemicellulose in the dictionary is any of a group of plant polysaccharides that occur chiefly in the cell wall.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEMICELLULOSE


alpha-cellulose
ˌælfəˈsɛljʊˌləʊz
amylose
ˈæmɪˌləʊz
anchylose
ˈæŋkɪˌləʊz
antigropeloes
ˌæntɪˈɡrɒpəˌləʊz
antigropelos
ˌæntɪˈɡrɒpəˌləʊz
bellows
ˈbɛləʊz
cellulose
ˈsɛljʊˌləʊz
chloralose
ˈklɔːrələʊz
cumulose
ˈkjuːmjʊˌləʊz
disclose
dɪsˈkləʊz
enclose
ɪnˈkləʊz
gallows
ˈɡæləʊz
levulose
ˈlevjʊˌləʊz
pilose
ˈpaɪləʊz
plumulose
ˈpluːmjʊˌləʊz
rivulose
ˈrɪvjʊˌləʊz
venulose
ˈvenjəˌləʊz
vesiculose
vɛˈsɪkjʊˌləʊz
xylose
ˈzaɪləʊz
yellows
ˈjɛləʊz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEMICELLULOSE

hemialgia
hemianopia
hemianopic
hemianopsia
hemic
hemichordate
hemicrania
hemicryptophyte
hemicrystalline
hemicycle
hemicyclic
hemidemisemiquaver
hemielytra
hemielytral
hemielytron
hemihedral
hemihedrism
hemihedron
hemihedry
hemihydrate

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEMICELLULOSE

acaulose
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eglandulose
folliculose
granulose
hamulose
laevulose
lignocellulose
lobulose
methylcellulose
nitrocellulose
papulose
radiculose
rugulose
sabulose
siliculose
spinulose
surculose
tuberculose
tubulose
tumulose

Synonyms and antonyms of hemicellulose in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hemicellulose» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEMICELLULOSE

Find out the translation of hemicellulose to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hemicellulose from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hemicellulose» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半纤维素
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hemicelulosa
570 millions of speakers

English

hemicellulose
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hemicellulose
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هيميسيلولوز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гемицеллюлоза
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hemicelulose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hemicellulose
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hémicellulose
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hemiselulosa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hemicellulose
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヘミセルロース
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

헤미셀룰로오스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hemisellulosa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hemicellulose
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hemicellulose
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेमिसेल्यूलोजी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hemiselüloz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

emicellulosa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hemicelulozy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гемицеллюлоза
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hemiceluloză
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημικυτταρίνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hemisellulose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hemicellulosa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hemicellulose
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hemicellulose

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEMICELLULOSE»

The term «hemicellulose» is regularly used and occupies the 65.579 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of hemicellulose
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEMICELLULOSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hemicellulose» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hemicellulose» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hemicellulose

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEMICELLULOSE»

Discover the use of hemicellulose in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hemicellulose and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism
Hemicellulose, a dietary fiber and a component of plant cell walls, consists of a heterogeneous group of polysaccharide substances that vary both between different plants and within a plant depending on location. Hemicelluloses contain a ...
Sareen Gropper, Jack Smith, 2012
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Wood and Cellulosic Chemistry, Second Edition, Revised, and ...
1f only the total content of hemicelluloses is required, isolation of the hemicellulose is not necessary, The total content of polyoses of a sample can be determined by sugar analysis of total hydrolysis of the polysaccharides. The hydrolysis ...
David N.-S. Hon, Nobuo Shiraishi, 2000
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Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant
Acidification with acetic acid followed by refrigeration causes hemicellulose A to precipitate while hemi- cellulose B remains in solution. Subfractionation of hemicellulose A or B can be accomplished by precipitation with copper, quaternary ...
Peter J. Van Soest, 1994
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Extraction of Hemicellulose and Fabrication of Biodegradable ...
The elevated hemicellulose to lignin ratio supports findings about the hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin structure in cell wall (Delmer, 1995) which show that the water extraction after presoaking of the sawdust in water at room temperature for ...
Kunal R. Mishra, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2007
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Polysaccharides: Structural Diversity and Functional ...
V. ACID HYDROLYSIS OF HEMICELLULOSE A. System Description and Performance In simple terms, acid hydrolysis of hemicellulose is similar to that for cellulose: acid catalyzes the breakdown of long hemicellulose chains to form shorter ...
Severian Dumitriu, 2004
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1st World Conference on Biomass for Energy and Industry: ...
ABSTRACT: Lactic acid production by a mixed culture of Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus pentosus on hemicellulose from pre-treatment of wheat straw was evaluated. Different pre-treatment conditions were applied to minimise the use ...
Spyros Kyritsis, 2001
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Handbook on Bioethanol: Production and Utilization
Included in this table are performance goaJs established by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for a fermentation process to convert xylose-rich hemicellulose hydrolyzates to ethanol. NREL's goals are to ferment pentose ...
Charles Wyman, 1996
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Methods in Agricultural Chemical Analysis: A Practical Handbook
Hemicellulose This is unfortunately a misnomer, as the cell-wall hemicellulose fraction has no chemical relationship with cellulose. In the primary and secondary cellwalls, the cellulose microfibrils are embedded in an amorphous matrix ...
N. T. Faithfull, 2002
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Chemical Changes in Food during Processing
(1981) found that ferulic acid was associated with the hemicellulose. To examine the effects of hemicellulose and ferulic acid on viscosity of cooked rice flour, intact rice flour (not extracted) and hemicellulose-free rice flour (extracted) were ...
Thomas Richardson, John W. Finley, 1985
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Recent Progress in Bioconversion of Lignocellulosics
After treatment, the enzymatic digestibility (3d) was enhanced by 7 times for glucose yield from cellulose and 21 times for xylose yield from hemicellulose. During pretreatment, about 10% of glucan, 26% of xylan, and 29% of lignin were solu- ...
G.T. Tsao, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEMICELLULOSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hemicellulose is used in the context of the following news items.
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Better chocolate with microbes - Phys.org
... pectin, and small amounts of lignin and hemicellulose. Microbes that are present in the farm environment then go to work consuming the pulp ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
2
Insoluble Dietary Fiber Market: Global Industry Analysis and …
On the basis of type the insoluble dietary fiber can be segmented as cellulose, hemicellulose, chitin & chitosan, lignin, fiber/bran, resistant ... «Medgadget.com, Jul 15»
3
ORNL: Unlocking lignin for sustainable biofuel
A transgenic lignin-hemicellulose molecule. Computer simulations revealed that hydrophobic, or water repelling, lignin (brown) binds less with ... «Ethanol Producer Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Unlocking lignin for sustainable biofuel
A transgenic lignin-hemicellulose molecule. Computer simulations revealed that hydrophobic, or water repelling, lignin binds less with ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
5
4 minutes with… Dr Bryan Lavarack, Senior Technologist, MSL
A sugar company that is diversifying into co-products that can be produced from fibre (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin), sucrose and/or ... «Biobased Digest, Jul 15»
6
Developing Biofuels from Non-Food Plant Matter: An Interview with …
AP: Most processing methods at the moment only convert cellulose into sugar, what effect does the ability to convert hemicellulose into sugar ... «AZoCleantech, Jul 15»
7
USDA Loan Guarantee Funding Solicitation Announced
Eligible types of renewable biomass are specific to the definition of advanced biofuels and include cellulose, hemicellulose, or lignin; sugar and ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
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CIMV / 2G-Biopic: Europe's €35 million biorefinery project
... degradation, of 3 main components of plant material- lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose- providing better and more efficient operation. «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
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WSU Extension Q&A: Dry foods in oven only if it can maintain 140 …
... it measures the major structural components in plant cell walls (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) with a minimum of protein contamination. «Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, Jun 15»
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Genome-scale resources for Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum
Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum is a hemicellulose-degrading thermophilic anaerobe that was previously engineered to produce ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Hemicellulose [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hemicellulose>. May 2024 ».
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