galactan

[guh-lak-tuhn, -tan]

ga·lac·tan

[guh-lak-tuhn, -tan]
noun Biochemistry.
any of the class of hexosans, as agar, that yield galactose upon hydrolysis.


Origin:
1885–90; < German; see galact-, -ane
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