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XYLOSE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics

Synonyms:

wood sugar; xylose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

carbohydrate; saccharide; sugar (an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain)

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 Context examples: 

This species is motile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, indole, citrate, and urease negative, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, and ferments xylose, but not mannitol.

(Escherichia blattae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-motile, nonsporulating, produces acid from maltose, lactose and glucose but not xylose, glycogen, sorbitol or inositol.

(Collinsella aerofaciens, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is catalase positive, oxidase negative, requires V factor but not X factor to grow and xylose is not fermented.

(Aggregatibacter segnis, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria hydrolyzes esculin, produces acid from xylose and is urease and catalase negative.

(Actinomyces israelii, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is nonmotile, oxidase and urease positive, weakly catalase positive, does not hydrolyze esculin and produces acid from glucose, lactose and xylose.

(Actinobacillus equuli, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is nonmotile, secretes leukotoxin, is catalase positive and ferments mannitol and xylose.

(Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is motile, non sporeforming, oxidase and catalase positive, hydrolyzes esculin and ferments glucose, xylose and mannitol.

(Agrobacterium radiobacter, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, catalase negative, does not reduce nitrate, and ferments lactose, arabinose, xylose, ribose, gluconate, cellobiose, and salicin.

(Bifidobacterium adolescentis, NCI Thesaurus)

A diastereomer at C-2 and C-3 of xylose (in Fisher projection).

(Arabinose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

This species nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase and indole negative, does not reduce nitrate and ferments arabinose, xylose, ribose, gluconate, cellobiose, lactose, mannitol, melezitose, salicin, and starch.

(Bifidobacterium dentium, NCI Thesaurus)