GLYCOSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glycoside mean? 

• GLYCOSIDE (noun)
  The noun GLYCOSIDE has 1 sense:

1. a group of compounds derived from monosaccharides

  Familiarity information: GLYCOSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLYCOSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of compounds derived from monosaccharides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("glycoside" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glycoside"):

glucoside (a glycoside derived from glucose)

nucleoside (a glycoside formed by partial hydrolysis of a nucleic acid)

strophanthin (a bitter and very toxic glycoside derived from plants of the genus Strophanthus; in moderate doses it is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses it is a powerful poison; used in Africa as an arrow poison)

 Context examples 

A semi-synthetic anthracycline glycoside antibiotic obtained from Streptomyces with antineoplastic activity.

(Daunorubicin Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Hydrolysis of a glycoside yields one or more sugars.

(Glycoside Compound, NCI Thesaurus)

A cyanide-containing glycoside found in many plants which plays a role in self defense.

(Cyanogenic glucoside, NCI Thesaurus)

The sugar group in glycosides is known as the glycone, which can be a single sugar group (monosaccharide) or several sugar groups (oligosaccharide); the non-sugar group is known as the aglycone or genin.

(Glycoside, NCI Thesaurus)

It contains a complex mixture of saponin glycosides, also known as ginsenosides or panaxosides.

(American Ginseng, NCI Thesaurus)

Ex-Lax contains anthraquinone glycosides sennosides, extracted from senna leaves.

(Ex-Lax, NCI Thesaurus)

A bufadienolide compound extracted from the dried venom secreted by the parotid glands of toads and one of the glycosides in the traditional Chinese medicine ChanSu, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Cinobufagin, NCI Thesaurus)

A semi-synthetic triterpene glycoside, derived from the naturally occurring saponins.

(GPI-0100, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic diethylaminoethyl analogue of the indolocarbazole glycoside antineoplastic antibiotic rebeccamycin.

(Becatecarin, NCI Thesaurus)

A flavonoid that is a glycoside derivative of anthocyanidin.

(Anthocyanin, NCI Thesaurus)