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English → English (gcide) Definition: -rid 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Trisaccharide \Tri*sac"cha*ride\, n. Also -rid \-rid\ (Chem.) A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]