cellulose

See also: Cellulose

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cellulose

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

• cellophane
• cellucotton
• cellulose acetate
• cellulose nitrate
• cellulosic
• ethylcellulose
• hemicellulose
• hydrocellulose
• hydroxypropyl cellulose
• hydroxypropylmethylcellulose
• lignocellulose
• methylcellulose
• nitrocellulose
• noncellulose
• oxycellulose
• pectocellulose
• phosphocellulose
• pyrocellulose
• soda cellulose

 

Translations

the polysaccharide cellulose

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

  Mandarin: 纖維素／纤维素 (zh) (xiānwéisù), 纤维素 (zh) (xiānwéisù)

• Czech: celulóza (cs) f
• Danish: cellulose c
• Dutch: cellulose (nl)
• Esperanto: celulozo
• Estonian: tselluloos
• Faroese: viðarmeyk n
• Finnish: selluloosa (fi)
• French: cellulose (fr) f
• 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
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• 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)
• Volapük: sälülod (vo)

See also

• cellophane
• celluloid
• pentosan

Adjective

cellulose (not comparable)

1. Consisting of, or containing, cells.

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French

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.

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Italian

Adjective

cellulose

1. feminine plural of celluloso

Noun

cellulose f

1. plural of cellulosa