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mannan

mannan noun: a plant polysaccharide that is a highly branched polymer of mannose (or galactose or glucose).

Noun

mannan (plural mannans)

  1. A plant polysaccharide that is a highly branched polymer of mannose (or galactose or glucose).

Proper noun capitalized: Mannan

Mannan (plural Mannans)

  1. A surname.

Forms of mannan

Noun
pluralmannans
Proper noun
pluralMannans

Origin of mannan

From mann(ose) + -an.

Words formed from mannan

Questions about mannan

What does mannan mean?
Mannan means a plant polysaccharide that is a highly branched polymer of mannose (or galactose or glucose).
What part of speech is mannan?
Mannan can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of mannan?
The plural of mannan is mannans.

Words near mannan in the dictionary

  1. mannagrasses
  2. Mannahatta
  3. Mannai
  4. mannalike
  5. Mannamead
  6. mannan
  7. mannanase
  8. mannanases
  9. mannanoligosaccharide
  10. mannanoligosaccharides
  11. mannanolytic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mannan (page history and authors); Mannan (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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