hexose

English

Etymology

hex- (“six”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”)

Noun

hexose (plural hexoses)

1. (biochemistry) A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms.

   Glucose is a common hexose

Hypernyms

• monosaccharide

Hyponyms

• ketohexose

• psicose
• fructose
• sorbose
• tagatose

• aldohexose

• allose
• altrose
• glucose
• mannose
• gulose
• idose
• galactose
• talose

• fucose
• fuculose
• rhamnose

Derived terms

• aldohexose
• chitohexose
• deoxyhexose
• hexosamine
• hexoside
• hexosyl
• ketohexose
• phosphohexose
• trihexose

 

Translations

a sugar containing six carbon atoms

• Catalan: hexosa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 己醣／己糖, 己糖 (gei² tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 己醣／己糖 (zh), 己糖 (zh) (jǐtáng)

  Min Nan: 己醣／己糖, 己糖 (kí-thn̂g)

• Esperanto: heksozo
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• Finnish: heksoosi
• French: hexose (fr) m
• Italian: esoso (it) m
• Portuguese: hexose f
• Spanish: hexosa f
• Swedish: hexos (sv)

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Portuguese

Noun

hexose f (plural hexoses)

1. (biochemistry) hexose (a sugar containing six carbon atoms)