saccharide
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1. 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 (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | macromolecule, supermolecule, |
| definition | : | any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | ribose, |
| definition | : | a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | beet sugar, |
| definition | : | sugar made from sugar beets (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | cane sugar, |
| definition | : | sucrose obtained from sugar cane (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | deoxyribose, |
| definition | : | a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | invert sugar, |
| definition | : | a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | maple sugar, |
| definition | : | sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | oligosaccharide, |
| definition | : | any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | polyose, polysaccharide, |
| definition | : | any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | wood sugar, xylose, |
| definition | : | a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics (noun.substance) |
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