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RAFFINOSE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A trisaccharide that occurs in sugar beets and cotton seeds and certain cereals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

trisaccharide (any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield three monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)

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This species is motile, indole positive, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, and catalase positive, and negative for Vosges-Proskauer, citrate utilization, urea hydrolysis, phenylalanine deamination, arginine dihydrolase, growth in KCN and fermentation of lactose, sucrose, myo-inositol, D-sorbitol, raffinose and alpha-methyl-D-glucose.

(Escherichia fergusonii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole negative, utilizes acetate, hydrolyzes esculin, ferments fructose, starch, and inulin, but not arabinose, melibiose, raffinose, rhamnose, ribose or xylose, does not produce hydrogen or reduce nitrate, but does produce copious amounts of butyrate.

(Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, NCI Thesaurus)