About The Word Monosaccharide
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Monosaccharide
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What's The Definition Of Monosaccharide?
[n] a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
Synonyms | Synonyms for Monosaccharide: monosaccharose | simple sugar Related Terms | Find terms related to Monosaccharide: See Also | aldose | carbohydrate | hexose | ketose | pentose | saccharide | sugar | tetrose | triose Monosaccharide In Webster's Dictionary \Mon`o*sac"cha*ride\, n. Also -rid \-rid\ .
[Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.)
A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the
trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable
into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some,
a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds
containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a
ketone group.
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