GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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    Monosaccharide (?), n. Also -rid . [Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.) A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose.  The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
   
   
         
       

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   Trisaccharide (?), n. Also -rid. (Chem.) A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]