saccharide

See also: Saccharide

English

Etymology

From saccharo- +‎ -ide.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsæk.əˌɹaɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsæk.əˌɹaɪd/, /ˈsæk.ɚ.ɪd/

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Noun

saccharide (plural saccharides)

1. (biochemistry) The unit structure of carbohydrates, of general formula C_nH_2nO_n. Either the simple sugars or polymers such as starch and cellulose. The saccharides exist in either a ring or short chain conformation, and typically contain five or six carbon atoms.
   • 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds‎^[1], London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:

     The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:carbohydrate

Derived terms

• aminosaccharide
• decasaccharide
• disaccharide
• glucosaccharide
• heptasaccharide
• heterosaccharide
• hexasaccharide
• isomaltosaccharide
• monosaccharide
• oligosaccharide
• pentasaccharide
• phosphosaccharide
• polysaccharide
• tetrasaccharide
• trisaccharide

 

Related terms

• heptose
• hexose
• pentose
• tetrose
• triose

 

Translations

the unit structure of carbohydrates, of general formula C_nH_2nO_n

• Belarusian: сахары́д m (saxarýd)
• Catalan: sacàrid (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖類／糖类 (zh) (tánglèi)

• Czech: sacharid (cs) m
• Dutch: sacharide (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: sakarido
• Finnish: sakkaridi
• French: (formally) saccharide (fr) m
• German: Saccharid n
• Greek: σακχαρίτης m (sakcharítis)
• Icelandic: sykra (is) f
• Italian: saccaride (it)
• Japanese: 糖質 (ja) (とうしつ, tōshitsu)
• Korean: 당질(糖質) (ko) (dangjil)
• Polish: sacharyd (pl) m
• Portuguese: sacarídeo m
• Romanian: zaharidă f
• Russian: сахари́д (ru) m (saxaríd)
• Slovak: sacharid m
• Swedish: sackarid (sv)
• Turkish: sakkarit
• Ukrainian: сахари́д m (saxarýd)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ka.ʁid/

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Noun

saccharide m (plural saccharides)

1. (chemistry) Alternative form of saccaride

Further reading

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