MONOSACCHARIDE
Dictionary entry overview: What does monosaccharide mean?
• MONOSACCHARIDE (noun)
The noun MONOSACCHARIDE has 1 sense:
1. a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
Familiarity information: MONOSACCHARIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MONOSACCHARIDE (noun)
Meaning:
A sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
monosaccharide; monosaccharose; simple sugar
Hypernyms ("monosaccharide" is a kind of...):
carbohydrate; saccharide; sugar (an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monosaccharide"):
triose (any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule)
tetrose (any monosaccharide sugar containing four atoms of carbon per molecule)
pentose (any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule)
hexose (a monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule)
aldose (a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal)
ketose (any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal)
