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Monosaccharide Monosaccharide Mon`o*sac"cha*ride, n. Also -rid -rid .
[Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.)
A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the
trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable
into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some,
a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds
containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a
ketone group.
Trisaccharide Trisaccharide Tri*sac"cha*ride, n. Also -rid -rid (Chem.)
A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three
simple sugar molecules.