xylose
noun
xylose is a noun meaning “One of the pentoses, C₅H₁₀O₅, a white crystalline sugar, derived from wood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled X-Y-L-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of xylose is xyloses.
What does xylose mean?
noun
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One of the pentoses, C₅H₁₀O₅, a white crystalline sugar, derived from wood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of xylose
- xyloses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is xylose?
Xylose appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd 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).
Xylose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense wood sugar:
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Where does xylose come from?
From xylo- + -ose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).