disaccharide

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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