Contextualizebeta

maltase

noun

Etymology

From malt + -ase.

  1. derived from *meld-✻
  2. derived from *maltą✻
  3. derived from *malt✻
  4. derived from mealt
  5. derived from malt
  6. suffixed as maltase — “malt + ase”

Definitions

  1. An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose

    An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose; often associated with amylase.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for maltase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA