cellulose

See also: Cellulose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cellulose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛljʊləʊz/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

cellulose (countable and uncountable, plural celluloses)

Ball-and-stick model of cellulose.

1. A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.
2. (organic chemistry) A polysaccharide containing many glucose units in parallel chains.

Synonyms

• E460 when used as an emulsifier

Derived terms

• alkali cellulose
• benzyl cellulose
• carboxymethyl cellulose
• cellophane
• cellucotton
• cellulase
• cellulose acetate
• cellulose nitrate
• cellulosic
• ethyl cellulose
• ethyl methyl cellulose
• ethylcellulose
• hemicellulose
• holocellulose
• hydrocellulose
• hydroxypropyl cellulose
• hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose
• hydroxypropylmethylcellulose
• lignocellulose
• methyl cellulose
• methylcellulose
• mycocellulose
• nanocellulose
• nitrocellulose
• noncellulose
• oligocellulose
• oxycellulose
• pectocellulose
• phosphocellulose
• pyrocellulose
• soda cellulose

 

Translations

the polysaccharide cellulose

• Arabic: سِلْيُولُوز‎ m (silyulūz)
• Catalan: cel·lulosa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 纖維素／纤维素 (zh) (xiānwéisù)

• Czech: celulóza (cs) f
• Danish: cellulose c
• Dutch: cellulose (nl) f
• Esperanto: celulozo
• Estonian: tselluloos
• Faroese: viðarmeyk n
• Finnish: selluloosa (fi)
• French: cellulose (fr) f
• Georgian: ცელულოზა (celuloza)
• German: Zellulose (de) f, Cellulose (de) f, Zellstoff (de) m
• Greek: κυτταρίνη (el) f (kyttaríni)
• Hebrew: תאית‎ (he)
• Hindi: कोशाधु (kośādhu)
• Hungarian: cellulóz (hu)
• Icelandic: sellulósi m, beðmi n
• Ido: celuloso (io)
• Indonesian: selulosa (id)
• Italian: cellulosa (it) f
• Japanese: セルロース (serurōsu)
• Korean: 셀룰로스 (sellulloseu)
• Malay: selulosa
• Maori: pūtauhuka
• Marathi: कोशाधु (kośādhu)
• Nepali: कोशाधु (kośādhu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cellulose m, sellulose m

  Nynorsk: cellulose m, sellulose m

• Persian: سلولز‎ (fa) (seluloz)
• Polish: celuloza (pl) f
• Portuguese: celulose (pt) f
• Romanian: celuloză (ro) f
• Russian: целлюло́за (ru) f (celljulóza)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceallalos m
• Slovene: celuloza f
• Spanish: celulosa (es) f
• Swedish: cellulosa (sv) c
• Thai: เซลลูโลส
• Turkish: selüloz (tr)
• Ukrainian: целюло́за (uk) f (celjulóza), кліткови́на f (klitkovýna)
• Volapük: sälülod (vo)

See also

• cellophane
• celluloid
• pentosan

Adjective

cellulose (not comparable)

1. Consisting of, or containing, cells.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cellulose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛ.lyˈloː.zə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: cel‧lu‧lo‧se
• Rhymes: -oːzə

Noun

cellulose f (plural celluloses)

1. cellulose (complex carbohydrate)

Derived terms

• cellulosederivaat

French

Etymology

cellule (“small cell”) +‎ -ose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.ly.loz/, /se.ly.loz/

• Audio

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Noun

cellulose f (uncountable)

1. cellulose

References

• “cellulose” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).

Further reading

• “cellulose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃel.luˈlo.se/, /t͡ʃel.luˈlo.ze/
• Rhymes: -ose, -oze
• Syllabification: cel‧lu‧ló‧se

Adjective

cellulose

1. feminine plural of celluloso

Noun

cellulose f

1. plural of cellulosa