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.
MONOSACCHARID
Meaning of MONOSACCHARID in English
Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012