KETOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ketose mean? 

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

1. any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KETOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

monosaccharide; monosaccharose; simple sugar (a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates)

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

ketohexose (a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group)