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Carbohydrate

Carbohydrate Meaning & Definition
Carbohydrate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Carbohydrate?

[n] an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain

Synonyms | Synonyms for Carbohydrate: saccharide | sugar

Related Terms | Find terms related to Carbohydrate: barley sugar | beet sugar | cellulose | clinical dextran | deoxyribose | dextran | dextrose | erythrose | fructose | galactose | glucose | glycogen | grape sugar | hydroxy aldehyde | hydroxy ketone | lactose | levulose | lyxose | maple sugar | molasses | monosaccharide | nipa sugar | pentose sugar | polysaccharide | polysaccharose | raffinose | saccharide | starch | sucrose | sugar | tree molasses | trisaccharide

See Also | beet sugar | cane sugar | deoxyribose | invert sugar | jaggary | jaggery | jagghery | macromolecule | maple sugar | monosaccharide | monosaccharose | oligosaccharide | polyose | polysaccharide | ribose | simple sugar | supermolecule | wood sugar | xylose

Carbohydrate In Webster's Dictionary

\Car`bo*hy"drate\, n. [Carbon + hydrate.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, {C6H12O6}.

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