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monosaccharide


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Monosaccharide  \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 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  monosaccharide 
  n  :  a  simple  sugar  (like  sucrose  or  fructose)  that  does  not 
  hydrolyse  to  give  other  sugars;  the  simplest  group  of 
  carbohydrates  [syn:  {monosaccharose}] 




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