English > sugar: 4 senses > noun 2, substance| Meaning | An essential structural / structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain. |
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| Synonyms | carbohydrate, saccharide |
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| Narrower | beet sugar | sugar made from sugar beets |
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| cane sugar | sucrose obtained from sugar ... / sugar cane |
| deoxyribose | A sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids |
| invert sugar | A mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose |
| jaggery, jagghery, jaggary | unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap |
| maple sugar | sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree |
| monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar | A sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars |
| oligosaccharide | Any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis |
| polysaccharide, polyose | Any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules |
| ribose | A pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid |
| wood sugar, xylose | A sugar extracted from wood or straw |
| Broader | macromolecule, supermolecule | Any very large complex molecule |
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| Spanish | azúcar, carbohidrato, glúcido, hidrato de carbono, sacarosa |
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| Catalan | carbohidrat, glúcid, hidrat de carboni, sacàrid, sacarosa, sucre |
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