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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A heptose ketose widely distributed in plants of the family Crassulaceae especially in the leaves of the sedum; it plays a part in the fixation of carbon dioxide by photosynthesis countable, uncountable

Etymology

From sed(um) + -o- + hept- + -ulose, from levulose.

Related phrases

carbon dioxide

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