chitobiose

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noun

A disaccharide amino sugar composed of two glucosamine residues.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounchitobiose (countable and uncountable, plural chitobioses)

plural chitobioses

  1. countableuncountablebiochemistryA disaccharide amino sugar composed of two glucosamine residues.
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