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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mannan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English

Syllables
man-nan
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A plant polysaccharide that is a highly branched polymer of mannose (or galactose or glucose).

name

A surname.

Etymology

From mann(ose) + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mannans (plural)

Derived Forms

antimannan arabinomannan galactoglucomannan galactomannan heteromannan lipoarabinomannan mannanase oligomannan phospholipomannan phosphomannan rhamnomannan xylomannan

Questions

What does mannan mean?
A plant polysaccharide that is a highly branched polymer of mannose (or galactose or glucose).
Where does mannan come from?
From mann(ose) + -an.

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