Associations to the word «Monosaccharide»

Wiktionary

MONOSACCHARIDE, noun. (carbohydrate) A simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring.

Dictionary definition

MONOSACCHARIDE, noun. A sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope