Word.ws English Dictionary

gallotannin

gallotannin noun: any of a class of polymers formed when gallic acid esterifies and binds with the hydroxyl group of a polyol carbohydrate such as glucose.

Noun

gallotannin (plural gallotannins)

  1. Any of a class of polymers formed when gallic acid esterifies and binds with the hydroxyl group of a polyol carbohydrate such as glucose.

Forms of gallotannin

pluralgallotannins

Questions about gallotannin

What does gallotannin mean?
Gallotannin means any of a class of polymers formed when gallic acid esterifies and binds with the hydroxyl group of a polyol carbohydrate such as glucose.
What part of speech is gallotannin?
Gallotannin is a noun.
What is the plural of gallotannin?
The plural of gallotannin is gallotannins.

Words near gallotannin in the dictionary

  1. Gallos
  2. gallotannate
  3. gallotannates
  4. gallotannic
  5. gallotannic acid
  6. gallotannin
  7. gallotannins
  8. gallous
  9. gallousness
  10. Gallovidian
  11. Gallovidians

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gallotannin (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gallotannin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gallotannin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.