granulose Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
    gritty; grainy; granular; farinaceous; mealy; coarse-grained.
    • granular sugar
    • the photographs were grainy and indistinct
    • it left a mealy residue

WordNet

Gran"u*lose` noun
Etymology
From Granule.
Definitions
  1. (Physiol. Chem.) The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.

Webster 1913