PECTIN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("pectin" is a kind of...):

cellulose (a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers)

Holonyms ("pectin" is a substance of...):

Kaopectate (trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient)

Derivation:

pectic (of or relating to or derived from pectin)

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