Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A polymer of glucose and mannitol that is the main form of food storage of brown algae.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry A glucan produced by some brown algae
Etymologies
- laminar(ia) + -in. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, Rhodophyta (red algae) store energy in the form of floridean starch, whereas the Phaeophyceae (brown algae) store their energy in the form of laminarin.”
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Polymers
"Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule."
-...cellulose, diamond, feldspar, nucleic acids, proteins, quartz, rubber, starch, wool, polyethylene, polypropylene, laminarin and 58 more...
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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