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dextrinous

dextrinous adjective: containing large amounts of dextrin.

Adjective

dextrinous (comparative more dextrinous, superlative most dextrinous)

  1. Containing large amounts of dextrin.
    • It is of extreme importance that the malt employed should be so good as to render stewing quite unnecessary in order that the beer with its proportion of added saccharine may still be sufficiently dextrinous.1884, Frank Faulkner, The Theory and Practice of Modern Brewing: A Re-written and Much Enlarged Edition of "The Art of Brewing", page 266

Forms of dextrinous

comparativemore dextrinous
superlativemost dextrinous

Origin of dextrinous

From dextrin + -ous.

Questions about dextrinous

What does dextrinous mean?
Dextrinous means containing large amounts of dextrin.
What part of speech is dextrinous?
Dextrinous is an adjective.

Words near dextrinous in the dictionary

  1. dextrinizing times
  2. dextrinogenic
  3. dextrinoid
  4. dextrinoidity
  5. dextrinosis
  6. dextrinous
  7. dextrins
  8. dextro
  9. dextro-
  10. dextroamfetamine
  11. dextroamphetamine

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