Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monosaccharide"
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) 1.7 (wn)
monosaccharide
n : a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse
to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
[syn: {monosaccharose}, {simple sugar}]
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