Usually means: Starch breakdown product, soluble carbohydrate.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. dextrin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. dextrin: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dextrin: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dextrin, dextrin: Wordnik
  5. dextrin: Wiktionary
  6. dextrin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. dextrin (dextrine): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. dextrin: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. dextrin: Dictionary.com
  10. Dextrin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Dextrin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. dextrin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Dextrin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dextrin: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dextrin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dextrin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. dextrin: Merriam-Webster
  18. dextrin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dextrin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dextrin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. dextrin: Medical dictionary

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Dextrin: Brew Monkey Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dextrin)

noun:  (biochemistry) Any of a range of oligomers of glucose, intermediate in complexity between maltose and starch, produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; used commercially as adhesives.

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