Lexic.us

Definition of Saccharify

1. Verb. Sweeten with sugar. "Sugar your tea"

2. Verb. Convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate.

Definition of Saccharify

1. v. t. To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

Definition of Saccharify

1. Verb. (biochemistry) To convert soluble polysaccharides into simple sugars ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Saccharify

1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Medical Definition of Saccharify

1. To convert starch or cellulose or other polysaccharides into sugar. Origin: sacchari-+ L. Facio, to make (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saccharify

saccharases saccharate saccharated saccharephidrosis saccharic saccharic acid saccharide saccharide kinase saccharides saccharidic

sacchariferous saccharification saccharifications saccharified saccharifies saccharify (current term) saccharifying saccharilla saccharillas saccharimeter

saccharimeters saccharimetrical saccharimetry saccharin saccharinate saccharinates saccharine saccharinic saccharinic acid saccharinities

Literary usage of Saccharify

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

1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... the cereal mash liquor added to the residue of ground malt and the temp, raised to saccharify the starch of the cereal wort. The 2 liquors are mixed, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"One hundred pounds of good barley will make about 75 pounds of kiln-dried distiller's malt, which will be strong enough to saccharify about 1000 pounds of ..."

3. Medical Chemistry by Charles Gilbert Wheeler (1879)
"... and which is able to saccharify as much as 2000 times its own weight of starch; it also effects this change with extreme rapidity. ..."

4. The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Interrelations Between by Raphael Meldola (1904)
"M. sitophila, Saccardo) found on earth-nuts in Java can saccharify starch (Went, Centr. Bakter. II, 7, 544; 591 ; also Journ. Ch. Soc. 80, II, Abst. 412). ..."

5. Medical Chemistry: Including the Outlines of Organic and Physiological by Charles Gilbert Wheeler, Alfred Riche (1879)
"... an amorphous substance insoluble in alcohol, of which 1 to 2 per cent. is present in the saliva, and which is able to saccharify as ..."

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