Defenition of the word oligosaccharide
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Defenition of the word oligosaccharide
- A saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of component sugars.
- any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
Hyponyms for the word oligosaccharide
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- disaccharide
- tetrasaccharide
- trisaccharide
Hypernyms for the word oligosaccharide
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- carbohydrate
- saccharide
- sugar
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