MONOSACCHARID


Meaning of MONOSACCHARID in English

add. ·- 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.

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