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What is a galactan?

What is a galactan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A polysaccharide consisting of many galactose residues.
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The higher degradability of arabinan compared to galactan in the network is due to the architecture in CRP involving more accessible arabinan than galactan.
The arabinan side-chains were in general more mobile than the galactans, but the long galactan side-chains of potato pectin showed high mobility.
Contrary to OAAO, acid extraction condition reduce the length of rhamnogalacturonan I side chains by depolymerising arabinan and galactan polymers.
The function of the arabinan and galactan side-chains of pectin remains unknown.

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