anhydroglucose

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anhydro- +‎ glucose

Noun[edit]

anhydroglucose (plural anhydroglucoses)

  1. (biochemistry) The moiety, in a polysaccharide such as cellulose, consisting of a glucose molecule that has lost the elements of water (actually a -H and an -OH group)
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