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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The mucilaginous constituent of carrageen, represented by some chemists under the formula C12H20O10, and, like starch, sugar, etc., appearing to be a carbohydrate. Also caragenin, lichinin.

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  • noun carrageenan

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  • noun a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae

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    CNN Transcript May 19, 2003 2003

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