monosaccharide

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ saccharide.

Noun

monosaccharide (plural monosaccharides)

(biochemistry) A simple sugar that has a single ring, such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose.
Synonyms: monosugar, simple sugar; see also Thesaurus:monosaccharide

Hyponyms: triose, tetrose, pentose, hexose, heptose

Coordinate terms: disaccharide, trisaccharide, tetrasaccharide, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide

Derived terms

Translations

simple sugar composed of a single ring

Catalan: monosacàrid m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 單糖 / 单糖 (daan¹ tong⁴), 單醣 / 单糖 (daan¹ tong⁴)

Hokkien: 單糖 / 单糖 (tan-thn̂g), 單醣 / 单糖 (tan-thn̂g),

Mandarin: 單糖 / 单糖 (zh) (dāntáng), 單醣 / 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)
Malay: monosakarida (ms)
Polish: monosacharyd (pl) m
Portuguese: monossacarídeo (pt) 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

Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)

Noun

monosaccharide m (plural monosaccharides)

monosaccharide

Further reading

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