Definition of Pectinous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pectinous

pectineal line
pectines
pectinesterase
pectinesterases
pectinibranch
pectinibranchiata
pectinibranchiate
pectinibranchs
pectinic acids
pectiniform
pectinous (current term)
pectins
pectise
pectised
pectises
pectising
pectization
pectize
pectized
pectizes
pectizing
pectolite
pectolites
pectolyase
pectoral

Literary usage of Pectinous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Vegetable Histology by Charles William Ballard (1921)
"Gums and pectinous Substances.—The cell wall in certain plants is so modified in its chemical nature that the original cellulose has been more or less ..."

2. Quantitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1903)
"If the liquid extracts also contain pectinous substances, these must first be separated if correct results are to be obtained, because, as JULIUS LOWE f ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"The extractives were generally of gelatinous consistency, probably due to pectinous substances. Also that the amount of phosphoric acid was frequently ..."

4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1909)
"... and traces of nitrogenous bodies. The ash is chiefly calcium carbonate. The characteristic pectinous constituent of gum tragacanth is known .as ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"According to Giraud, gum tragacanth usually contains about 60 per cent, of a pectinous body which yields pectic acid by boiling with water containing 1 per ..."

6. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Samuel Schmucker Sadtler, Wm. A. Davis, Henry Leffmann (1909)
"According to Giraud, gum tragacanth usually contains about 6oc'c of a pectinous body which yields pectic acid by boiling with water containing i% of ..."

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