/gluy"keuh jeuhn, -jen'/ , n. Biochem.
a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5 ) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts. Also called animal starch .
[ 1855-60; GLYCO- + -GEN ]