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amylose

amylose noun: the soluble form of starch (the insoluble form being amylopectin) that is a linear polymer of glucose.

Noun

amylose (countable and uncountable, plural amyloses)

  1. The soluble form of starch (the insoluble form being amylopectin) that is a linear polymer of glucose.

amylose meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Nepali

amylose in Hindi

soluble form of starch
मांडधु māṇḍdhu

amylose in Marathi

soluble form of starch
मांडधु māṇḍdhu

amylose in Kannada

ಹಿಟ್ಟುಸಕ್ಕರೆ

amylose in Nepali

soluble form of starch
मांडधु māṇḍadhu

Forms of amylose

pluralamyloses

Origin of amylose

From amyl- + -ose.

Questions about amylose

What does amylose mean?
Amylose means the soluble form of starch (the insoluble form being amylopectin) that is a linear polymer of glucose.
What is amylose in Hindi?
Amylose in Hindi is मांडधु (māṇḍdhu). See Amylose meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is amylose?
Amylose is a noun.
What is the plural of amylose?
The plural of amylose is amyloses.

Words near amylose in the dictionary

  1. amylopsin
  2. amylopsins
  3. amylopullulanase
  4. amylopullulanases
  5. amyloride
  6. amylose
  7. amyloses
  8. amylosome
  9. amylosomes
  10. amylosphere
  11. amylospheres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amylose (page history and authors); amylose (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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