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cellulase

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cellulase
/sel"yeuh lays', -layz'/, n. Biochem.
any of several enzymes, produced primarily by fungi and bacteria, that catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose.
[1900-05; CELLUL(OSE) + -ASE]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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