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SACCHARIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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 contain
Synonyms:
carbohydrate; saccharide; sugar
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("saccharide" is a kind of...):
macromolecule; supermolecule (any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saccharide"):
ribose (a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid)
beet sugar (sugar made from sugar beets)
cane sugar (sucrose obtained from sugar cane)
deoxyribose (a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids)
invert sugar (a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose)
maple sugar (sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree)
monosaccharide; monosaccharose; simple sugar (a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates)
oligosaccharide (any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)
polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)
jaggary; jaggery; jagghery (unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap)
wood sugar; xylose (a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics)
