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dextrinous en · ADJ

Etymology

From dextrin + -ous.

Meanings

1. Containing large amounts of dextrin.
   • It is of extreme importance that the malt employed should be so good as to render stewing quite unnecessary in order that the beer with its proportion of added saccharine may still be sufficiently dextrinous. 1884, Frank Faulkner, The Theory and Practice of Modern Brewing: A Re-written and Much Enlarged Edition of "The Art of Brewing", page 266:

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