| NOUN | substance | ketohexose | a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group |
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| Meaning | A monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group. | |
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| Narrower | fructose, fruit sugar, levulose, laevulose | A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits |
| Broader | hexose | A monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule |
| ketose | Any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal | |
| Spanish | cetohexosa | |
| Catalan | cetohexosa | |
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