(biochemistry) A polysaccharide consisting of many galactose residues.

(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of galactaric acid

(biochemistry) The sugar alcohol (2R,3S,4R,5S)-hexane-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexol

(biochemistry) mucic acid

(biochemistry) A disaccharide based on two galactose residues

(astronomy) the time it takes for the Solar System to orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, estimated to be from 225 to 250 million years.

A galaxy having a smooth, featureless light-profile. It is one of the three main classes of galaxies originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work “The Realm of the Nebulae”.

plural of galactarate

plural of galactitol

plural of galabiose