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chitinolytic (medicine) and sambuca(1) (iou)


chitinolytic (medicine)


chitinolytic
<biochemistry> Having to do with an enzyme which converts chitin, a polysaccharide that forms the hard, outer shell of arthropods (insects, spiders, crustaceas, etc.) and the cell walls of fungi and some algae, into chitobiose, which is a disaccharide secreted by such things as spiders and some plants.

Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution


sambuca(1) (iou)



sambuca noun1. . LME.

Ancient History.
A triangular stringed instrument. LME.
A kind of siege-engine. rare. LME.