saccharide

sac·cha·ride

S0006800 (săk′ə-rīd′)n. Any of a series of sweet-tasting carbohydrates, especially a simple sugar or an oligomer or polymer of simple sugars.

saccharide

(ˈsækəˌraɪd; -rɪd) n (Elements & Compounds) any sugar or other carbohydrate, esp a simple sugar

sac•cha•ride

(ˈsæk əˌraɪd, -ər ɪd)

n. 1. an organic compound containing a sugar or sugars. 2. a simple sugar; monosaccharide. 3. an ester of sucrose. [1855–60]

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saccharide - an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they containcarbohydrate, sugarribose - a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acidbeet sugar - sugar made from sugar beetscane sugar - sucrose obtained from sugar canedeoxyribose - a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acidsinvert sugar - a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucosemacromolecule, supermolecule - any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animalsmaple sugar - sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple treemonosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar - a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydratesoligosaccharide - any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysispolyose, polysaccharide - any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide moleculesjaggary, jaggery, jagghery - unrefined brown sugar made from palm sapwood sugar, xylose - a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics

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