pentose

English

Alternative forms

• pentaose

Etymology

From penta (“five”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”).

Noun

pentose (plural pentoses)

1. (biochemistry) A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.

   Hypernym: monosaccharide

   Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose.

Hyponyms

• ketopentose

• ribulose
• xylulose

• aldopentose

• ribose
• arabinose
• xylose
• lyxose

• deoxyribose

Derived terms

• pentose phosphate pathway

 

Related terms

• agaropentaose

Translations

saccharide containing five carbon atoms

• Catalan: pentosa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 戊醣／戊糖 (mou⁶ tong⁴), 五碳醣／五碳糖 (ng⁵ taan³ tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 戊糖 (zh) (wùtáng), 五碳糖 (zh) (wǔtàntáng)

• Esperanto: pentozo
• Finnish: pentoosi
• Hindi: पंचधु ? (pañcdhu)
• Hungarian: pentóz
• Italian: pentoso m, pentosio m
• Japanese: ペントース (pentōsu)
• Korean: 오탄당(五炭糖) (otandang), 펜토스 (pentoseu)
• Portuguese: pentose f
• Spanish: pentosa f
• Swedish: pentos (sv) ?
• Turkish: pentoz (tr)

Anagrams

• Speeton, open set, openest, pontees, posteen, poteens

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃.toz/

Noun

pentose m (plural pentoses)

1. pentose

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽˈtɔ.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽˈtɔ.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽˈtɔ.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pẽˈtɔ.zɨ/

• Hyphenation: pen‧to‧se

Noun

pentose f (plural pentoses)

1. (biochemistry) pentose

Further reading

• “pentose”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024