Found 2 items, similar to monosaccharide.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: monosaccharide
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Monosaccharide
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.]