hexose

hexose

English

Etymology

hex- (“six”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”)

Noun

hexose (plural hexoses)

1. (biochemistry) A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms.

   Glucose is a common hexose

Hypernyms

• monosaccharide

Hyponyms

• ketohexose

• psicose
• fructose
• sorbose
• tagatose

• aldohexose

• allose
• altrose
• glucose
• mannose
• gulose
• idose
• galactose
• talose

• fucose
• fuculose
• rhamnose

Derived terms

• aldohexose
• chitohexose
• deoxyhexose
• hexosamine
• hexoside
• hexosyl
• ketohexose
• phosphohexose
• trihexose

 

Translations

a sugar containing six carbon atoms

Catalan: hexosa f Chinese: Cantonese: 己醣, 己糖 (gei2 tong4) Mandarin: 己醣／己糖 (zh) (jǐtáng) Min Nan: 己醣, 己糖 (kí-thn̂g) Esperanto: heksozo Finnish: heksoosi French: hexose (fr) m Italian: esoso (it) m Japanese: ヘキソース (hekisōsu) Portuguese: hexose f Spanish: hexosa f Swedish: hexos (sv)

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zoz/

Noun

hexose f (plural hexoses)

1. hexose

Further reading

• “hexose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

hexose f (plural hexoses)

1. (biochemistry) hexose (a sugar containing six carbon atoms)