Defenition of the word simple sugar
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Defenition of the word simple sugar
- A saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of component sugars.
- a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
Hyponyms for the word simple sugar
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- aldose
- hexose
- ketose
- pentose
- tetrose
- triose
Hypernyms for the word simple sugar
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- carbohydrate
- saccharide
- sugar
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