MALTOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maltose mean? 

• MALTOSE (noun)
  The noun MALTOSE has 1 sense:

1. a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches

  Familiarity information: MALTOSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALTOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

malt sugar; maltose

Hypernyms ("maltose" is a kind of...):

disaccharide (any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)

 Context examples 

This bacteria is catalase negative, alpha hemolytic, produces acid from maltose, lactose, sucrose and trehalose, and produces beta glucuronidase.

(Aerococcus viridans, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, pyrazinamidase positive, non-lipophilic, reduces nitrate, urease positive, does not ferment glucose, sucrose, or maltose, and is reverse CAMP positive.

(Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-motile, nonsporulating, produces acid from maltose, lactose and glucose but not xylose, glycogen, sorbitol or inositol.

(Collinsella aerofaciens, NCI Thesaurus)

G. bergeri does not produce acid from maltose or sucrose.

(Gemella bergeri, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase negative, nonsporulating, and ferments lactose, maltose, starch, glucose and trehalose.

(Helcococcus kunzii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, ferments D ribose, galactose, arabinose and maltose, catalase positive, does not ferment mannose and hydrolyzes hippurate.

(Lactobacillus brevis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, oxidase positive, catalase negative, beta hemolytic, and ferments maltose.

(Kingella kingae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile by peritrichous flagella, indole and lipase positive, lecithinase negative, hydrolyzes gelatin, ferments inositol and does not ferment glucose or maltose.

(Clostridium tetani, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is resistant to colistin, hydrolyzes gelatin, does not hydrolyze esculin, urease negative and produces acid from glucose and maltose.

(Empedobacter brevis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is lecithinase positive, indole and lipase negative, hydrolyzes gelatin and does not ferment inositol, glucose or maltose.

(Clostridium limosum, NCI Thesaurus)