pentose

pentose

English

Etymology

penta- (“five”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”)

Noun

pentose (plural pentoses)

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

   Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose

Hypernyms

• monosaccharide

Hyponyms

• ketopentose

• ribulose
• xylulose

• aldopentose

• ribose
• arabinose
• xylose
• lyxose

• deoxyribose

Translations

saccharide containing five carbon atoms

Catalan: pentosa f Chinese: Cantonese: 戊醣 (mou6 tong4), 五碳醣 (ng5 taan3 tong4) Mandarin: 戊糖 (zh) (wùtáng), 五碳糖 (zh) (wǔtàntáng) Esperanto: pentozo Finnish: pentoosi Hindi: पंचधु (pañcdhu) Hungarian: pentóz Italian: pentoso m, pentosio m Japanese: ペントース (pentōsu) Korean: 오탄당(五炭糖) (otandang), 펜토스 (pentoseu) Portuguese: pentose f Spanish: pentosa f Swedish: pentos (sv) Turkish: pentoz (tr)

Anagrams

• Speeton, open set, openest, pontees, posteen, poteens

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃.toz/

Noun

pentose m (plural pentoses)

1. pentose

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Noun

pentose f (plural pentoses)

1. (biochemistry) pentose

Further reading

• “pentose” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.