/sel'oh buy"ohs/ , n.
a white, crystalline, water-soluble disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , that is obtained by the breakdown of cellulose or lichenin and yields glucose upon hydrolysis: used chiefly in bacteriology as a reagent.
[ 1900-05; CELL(ULOSE) + -O- + BI- 2 + -OSE 2 ]