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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A white crystalline sugar, C18H32O16·5H2O, obtained from sugar beets and cottonseed meal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crystalline sugar, C18H32O16 + 5H2O, found in Australian manna from different species of Eucalyptus, sugar-beets, cotton-seed, and barley.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biochemistry A trisaccharide, comprised of galactose, glucose and fructose, that is widely distributed in many plants

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a trisaccharide that occurs in sugar beets and cotton seeds and certain cereals

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from raffiner, to refine : re-, again (from Old French; see re–) + affiner, to refine (from Old French : a-, to from Latin ad-; see ad– + fin, fine, from Old French; see fine).]

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