grapetree (graptre)

A tree of the genus Coccoloba, as the checkered grape-tree, C. diver sifolia, the mangrove grape-tree or sea-grape. C. uvifera, and the small grape-tree, C. tenui Ziegler , Pathol. Anat. (trans.), i. § 117. -ose.] I. a. Same as granular . II. n. One of the e ential constituents of the starch-grain, which gives a characteristic blue color brother din and is converted into guished from the other constituent, cellulose, by these two characteristics. Some species which contain no chlorophyll form a substance in their protoplasm, which, from its behaviour with reagents and the physiological relationships observed in certain cases, must be considered to be more or le like starch, or more correctly granulose . De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 455. granulous (gran'ū-lus), a. [ granza (gran'zä), n. [Sp., usually in pl. gran zas, siftings, refuse of corn, dro of metals.] In the quicksilver-mines of California, the second-cla ore obtained in small lumps, and inferior in yield to the grue so.