RAFFINOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raffinose mean? 

• RAFFINOSE (noun)
  The noun RAFFINOSE has 1 sense:

1. a trisaccharide that occurs in sugar beets and cotton seeds and certain cereals

  Familiarity information: RAFFINOSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAFFINOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A trisaccharide that occurs in sugar beets and cotton seeds and certain cereals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("raffinose" is a kind of...):

trisaccharide (any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield three monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)

 Context examples 

This species is nonmotile, catalase and oxidase negative, produces acid from arabinose, raffinose and trehalose and hydrolyzes esculin.

(Leuconostoc mesenteroides, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonsporulating, urease, catalase and indole negative, pyrrolidonyl negative, does not reduce nitrate, weakly ferments mannose and raffinose and may appear gram variable due to staining difficulty.

(Clostridium ramosum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonsporulating, urease, catalase and indole negative, ferments mannose but not raffinose, does not reduce nitrate, is pyrrolidonyl positive and may appear gram variable due to staining difficulty.

(Clostridium innocuum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, non-spore forming, esculin positive, forms butyrate, produces abundant amounts of hydrogen, and utilizes glucose, cellobiose, melezitose, fructose, sucrose, raffinose, melibiose, starch, and inulin, but not glycerol.

(Eubacterium rectale, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, indole negative, resistant to colistin, lactose positive and produces acid from D-glucose, lactose and raffinose.

(Moellerella wisconsensis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile by peritrichous flagella, oxidase negative, catalase positive, grows in KCN medium, and successfully ferment sucrose, raffinose and melibiose.

(Citrobacter freundii, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is urease positive, indole and coagulase negative, ferments glucose and mannose but does not produces acid from raffinose.

(Anaerococcus tetradius, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonsporulating, urease and catalase negative, weakly indole positive, ferments mannose and raffinose, is resistant to penicillin G and may appear gram variable due to staining difficulty.

(Clostridium clostridioforme, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is indole and urease positive, coagulase and arginine dihydrolase negative and acid is produced from glucose, lactose, raffinose and mannose.

(Anaerococcus hydrogenalis, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is indole and coagulase negative, urease positive and produces acid from raffinose, ribose and mannose.

(Anaerococcus prevotii, NCI Thesaurus)