MONOSACCHARIDE

monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar

(noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

monosaccharide (plural monosaccharides)

(carbohydrate) A simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring

Synonyms

• monosugar

• simple sugar

Hyponyms

• triose

• tetrose

• pentose

• hexose

• heptose

• See also monosaccharide

Coordinate terms

• disaccharide

• trisaccharide

• tetrasaccharide

• oligosaccharide

• polysaccharide

Source: Wiktionary

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Mon`o*sac"cha*ride, n. Also -rid . [Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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