a. and sb. [ad. L. lignōs-us, f. lignum wood: see -OSE.] A. adj. = LIGNEOUS.
1698. Phil. Trans., XX. 465. Those Plants are more fit for dying Cloth, which are Lignose.
1855. in Mayne, Expos. Lex.
In mod. Dicts.
B. sb. a. Chem. One of the constituents of lignin. b. ‘A Silesian blasting powder made of woody fibre charged with nitro-glycerine’ (Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl. 1884).
1878. A. H. Green, Coal, v. 165. The lignose in its turn can be changed into cellulose.
1885. Goodale, Physiol. Bot., 36, note. Lignose, insoluble in water, alcohol, ether, and ammonia; soluble in solutions of potassa or soda.
