xylose
Noun. (chemistry) One of the pentoses, C5H10O5, a white crystalline substance, a sugar, derived from wood.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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