rhamnose
noun
rhamnose is a noun meaning “A methyl-pentose, 6-deoxy-L-mannose, which occurs in the leaves and flowers of poison ivy and is a constituent of many plant glycosides” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-A-M-N-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rhamnose is rhamnoses.
What does rhamnose mean?
noun
- 1
A methyl-pentose, 6-deoxy-L-mannose, which occurs in the leaves and flowers of poison ivy and is a constituent of many plant glycosides.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rhamnose
- rhamnoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhamnose?
Rhamnose appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Rhamnose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense methyl-pentose:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | ramnosa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does rhamnose come from?
From translingual Rhamnus "genus of buckthorns" + -ose (“used to form names of sugars”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).