monosaccharide

monosaccharide

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ saccharide.

Noun

monosaccharide (plural monosaccharides)

1. (biochemistry) A simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring

Synonyms

• monosugar
• simple sugar

Hyponyms

• triose
• tetrose
• pentose
• hexose
• heptose
• See also Thesaurus:monosaccharide

Coordinate terms

• disaccharide
• trisaccharide
• tetrasaccharide
• oligosaccharide
• polysaccharide

Translations

a simple sugar, composed of a single ring

Catalan: monosacàrid m Chinese: Cantonese: 單醣 or 單糖, 单糖 (daan1 tong4) Mandarin: 單醣／单糖 (zh) or 單糖／单糖 (zh) (dāntáng) Min Nan: 單醣, 單糖, 单糖 (tan-thn̂g) Czech: monosacharid m Esperanto: monosakarido Finnish: monosakkaridi (fi) French: monosaccharide (fr) m, ose (fr) m German: Monosaccharid (de) n Hungarian: monoszacharid Italian: monosaccaride (it) m Japanese: 単糖 (たんとう, tantō) Polish: monosacharyd (pl) m Portuguese: monossacarídeo m, monossacarídio m Romanian: monozaharidă (ro) f Russian: моносахарид (ru) m (monosaxarid) Slovene: monosaharid m Spanish: monosacárido m Swedish: monosackarid (sv) c Turkish: monosakkarit (tr)

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French

Etymology

mono- +‎ saccharide

Pronunciation

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Noun

monosaccharide m (plural monosaccharides)

1. monosaccharide

Further reading

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