monosaccharide
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Fructose, a monosaccharide known as "fruit sugar," is a common dietary sugar found naturally in fruit, honey, and processed foods.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
Most monosaccharide names end with the suffix -ose.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
By convention, the carbon atoms in a monosaccharide are numbered from the terminal carbon closest to the carbonyl group.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The monosaccharide mumbo jumbo you seem to be touting sounds like so much pseudoscience.
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2016
When completely hydrolyzed, they yield three molecules of monosaccharides; when partially hydrolyzed, one each of a disaccharide and a monosaccharide.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
