Cellulose
The structural polysaccharide of linked D-glucose units that forms plant cell walls, and the fibre or pulp material refined from it; regenerated fibres such as viscose are a separate polymer state and excluded.
Also called cellulose fibre, cellulose fiber.
How it connects
Cellulose is a kind of Natural organic.
Cellulose includes Paper and Wood pulp.
Other kinds of Natural organic: Cane, Cork, Grass, Leather, Natural fibre, Natural resin, Palm, Plant oil, Seagrass, Shell, Tall oil and Wax.
In other taxonomies
- CelluloseCAS Registry Number, 9004-34-6the same thing
- celluloseWikidata, Q80294nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
13 terms, Natural fibre to Tall oil
Record
- Also called
- cellulose fibre · cellulose fiber
- Broader
- Natural organic
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); CAS Registry, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/celluloseKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderNatural organicoutgoing
- narrowerPaperoutgoing
- narrowerWood pulpoutgoing
- narrowerNatural organicincoming
- broaderPaperincoming
- broaderWood pulpincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Natural organicoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Paperoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Wood pulpoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Kraft paperoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Caneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Corkoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Grassoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Leatheroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Natural fibreoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Natural resinoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Palmoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plant oiloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Seagrassoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Shelloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Tall oiloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Waxoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAS Registry Number | 9004-34-6 | Cellulose | the same thing |
| Wikidata | Q80294 | cellulose | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Cellulose | cellulose fibre | cellulose fiber | cellulose via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/download | none |