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Monosaccharide - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Monosaccharide : (noun)
1: a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse
to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
[syn: monosaccharose, simple sugar]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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