SACCHARIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saccharide mean? 

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

1. an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACCHARIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

carbohydrate; saccharide; sugar

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

macromolecule; supermolecule (any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals)

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

ribose (a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid)

beet sugar (sugar made from sugar beets)

cane sugar (sucrose obtained from sugar cane)

deoxyribose (a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids)

invert sugar (a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose)

maple sugar (sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree)

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

oligosaccharide (any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)

polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)

jaggary; jaggery; jagghery (unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap)

wood sugar; xylose (a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics)

 Context examples 

They are often classified according to either the saccharide or sugar specificity.

(Lectin, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally available proprietary aqueous extract from the North American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) dried root, primarily containing poly-furanosyl-pyranosyl-saccharides, with potential immunostimulating activity.

(North American Ginseng Extract AFX-2, NCI Thesaurus)