noun
- Plural of arabinose; a five-carbon sugar (pentose) found in plant cell walls and various polysaccharides.
Usage: technical; biochemistry
Examples
- Arabinoses are pentose sugars commonly found in the cell walls of plants.
- The hydrolysis of arabinan yields arabinoses as a primary product.
- Researchers studied how arabinoses are metabolized by different bacterial strains.
- Arabinoses play an important role in the structural integrity of plant tissues.