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monosaccharide

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mon=o=sac=cha=ride

CIDE DICTIONARY

monosacchariden. [Mono- + saccharide.].
     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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

monosaccharide, n. Chem. a sugar that cannot be hydrolysed to give a simpler sugar, e.g. glucose.


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