ARABINOSE
- white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C5H10O5, obtained from plant gums or made synthetically from glucose, used chiefly as a culture medium in bacteriology
- a crystalline pentose sugar obtained from plant polysaccharides such as gums and hemicelluloses [n ARABINOSES]
- a pentose sugar which is a constituent of many plant gums [n -S]