monosaccharide

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ saccharide.

Noun

monosaccharide (plural monosaccharides)

1. (biochemistry) A simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring

Synonyms

• monosugar
• simple sugar

Hyponyms

• triose
• tetrose
• pentose
• hexose
• heptose
• See also Thesaurus:monosaccharide

Coordinate terms

• disaccharide
• trisaccharide
• tetrasaccharide
• oligosaccharide
• polysaccharide

Translations

a simple sugar, composed of a single ring

• Catalan: monosacàrid m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 單醣／单糖 (daan¹ tong⁴) or 單糖／单糖 (daan¹ tong⁴)

  Hokkien: 單醣／单糖, 單糖／单糖 (tan-thn̂g)

  Mandarin: 單醣／单糖 (zh) (dāntáng) or 單糖／单糖 (zh) (dāntáng)

• Czech: monosacharid m
• Esperanto: monosakarido
• Finnish: monosakkaridi (fi)
• French: monosaccharide (fr) m, ose (fr) m
• Georgian: მონოსაქარიდი (monosakaridi)
• German: Monosaccharid (de) n
• Hungarian: monoszacharid (hu)
• Italian: monosaccaride (it) m
• Japanese: 単糖 (たんとう, tantō)
• Polish: monosacharyd (pl) m
• Portuguese: monossacarídeo m, monossacarídio m
• Romanian: monozaharidă (ro) f
• Russian: моносахарид (ru) m (monosaxarid)
• Slovene: monosaharid m
• Spanish: monosacárido m
• Swedish: monosackarid (sv) c
• Turkish: monosakkarit (tr)

French

Etymology

From mono- +‎ saccharide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

monosaccharide m (plural monosaccharides)

1. monosaccharide

Further reading

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