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7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk
originBorrowed from French lactose, from Latin lac (“milk”) + -ose (derivation of glucose). Coined by French chemist Marcelin Berthelot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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