- animal cellulose
- noun
: a substance like cellulose occurring in the test of certain tunicates
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
animal cellulose
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animal — animalic /an euh mal ik/, animalian /an euh may lee euhn, mayl yeuhn/, adj. /an euh meuhl/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well defined shape and usually limited growth, can move… … Universalium
animal — /ˈænəməl / (say anuhmuhl) noun 1. any living organism characterised by the capacity for voluntary motion, sensation, and the ingestion of food such as plants and other animals, and which has a non cellulose cell wall. Compare plant. 2. any animal …
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animal — 1. A living, sentient organism that has membranous cell walls, requires oxygen and organic foods, and is capable of voluntary movement, as distinguished from a plant or mineral. 2. One of the lower a. organisms as distinguished from humans. [L.]… … Medical dictionary
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Diethylaminoethyl cellulose — Schematic structure of DEAE: positively charged DEAE groups can bind negative ions Diethylaminoethyl cellulose (DEAE or DEAE C) is a positively charged resin used in ion exchange chromatography, a type of column chromatography, used in protein… … Wikipedia
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Tunicin — Tu ni*cin, n. (Physiol. Chem.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tunicin — tu·ni·cin (tooґnĭ sin) a substance resembling cellulose occurring in the body covering of some of the lowest vertebrates, such as the tunicates or ascidians; animal cellulose … Medical dictionary
