disaccharide

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /daɪˈsækəɹaɪd/

Noun

disaccharide (plural disaccharides)

1. (biochemistry) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.

Translations

a sugar consisting of two monosaccharides

• Esperanto: disakarido (eo)
• Finnish: disakkaridi (fi)
• French: disaccharide (fr) m
• Icelandic: tvísykra (is) f
• Italian: disaccaride (it) m
• Japanese: 二糖 (ja) (にとう, nitō)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дисахарид (sh) m

  Roman: disaharid (sh) m

• Spanish: disacárido (es) m
• Swedish: disackarid (sv) c

Hyponyms

• sucrose
• lactose
• maltose
• trehalose
• turanose
• cellobiose

Coordinate terms

• monosaccharide
• trisaccharide
• tetrasaccharide
• oligosaccharide
• polysaccharide