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Monosaccharide

Monosaccharide Meaning & Definition
Monosaccharide Definition And Meaning

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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