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mannite

/'mænait/

📖 中文释义

  1. n. [生化]甘露醇
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained
  2. from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus
  3. ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite.
  4. n. A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp,
  5. especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.