1. Noun. (carbohydrates) monosaccharide ¹
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1. A simple sugar that cannot be hydrolysed to smaller units. Empirical formula is (CH2O)n and range in size from trioses (n=3) to heptoses (n=7). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
