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Webster 1913 Edition

Melezitose

Me-lez′i-toseˊ

,

Noun.

[F.

mélèze

the larch + mel

itose

.]

(Chem.)

A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, extracted from the manna of the larch (

Larix

).

[Written also

melicitose

.]