laminaran, n. Biochem.
(ˈlæmɪnəræn)
[f. *laminarin n. + -an I. 2.]
A polysaccharide that consists chiefly of glucose residues and occurs in seaweeds of the genus Laminaria and other brown algae.
Earlier called laminarin.
| 1961 Nature 16 Dec. 1078/2 In 1939 Nisizawa isolated a soluble laminaran from the fronds of the brown alga, Eisenia bicyclis. 1967 Percival & McDowell Chem. & Enzymol. Marine Algal Polysaccharides iii. 53 Laminaran, earlier named laminarin, a water-soluble β-glucan, is the food reserve material of the Phaeophyceae. 1983 Kennedy & White Bioactive Carbohydrates viii. 179 The major polysaccharides elaborated by fungi include..a number of storage products of the laminaran type. |