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complex carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as sucrose or starch, that consists of two or more monosaccharide units. * * * … Universalium
complex carbohydrate — /ˌkɒmplɛks kabəˈhaɪdreɪt/ (say .kompleks kahbuh huydrayt) noun any polysaccharide present in grains, vegetables, fruits, legumes and dairy products, broken down by the body into simple sugars and used as a source of energy. Compare simple… …
complex carbohydrate — noun : polysaccharide ; also : a food (as rice or pasta) composed primarily of polysaccharides * * * a carbohydrate, as sucrose or starch, that consists of two or more monosaccharide units … Useful english dictionary
complex carbohydrate — noun Date: 1938 a polysaccharide (as starch or cellulose) consisting of usually hundreds or thousands of monosaccharide units; also a food (as rice or pasta) composed primarily of such polysaccharides … New Collegiate Dictionary
carbohydrate — /kahr boh huy drayt, beuh /, n. any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the… … Universalium
Carbohydrate — Carbohydrates (from hydrates of carbon ) or saccharides (Greek σάκχαρον meaning sugar ) are the most abundant of the four major classes of biomolecules, which also include proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. They fill numerous roles in living… … Wikipedia
carbohydrate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sugar, starch (See organic matter). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. starch, sugar, monosaccharide, disaccharide, polysaccharide, saccharide, glucose, sucrose, dextrose, fructose, lactose, galactose, maltose,… … English dictionary for students
Carbohydrate metabolism — denotes the various biochemical processes responsible for the formation, breakdown and interconversion of carbohydrates in living organisms.The most important carbohydrate is glucose, a simple sugar (monosaccharide) that is metabolized by nearly… … Wikipedia
Carbohydrate synthesis — is a sub field of organic chemistry concerned specifically with the generation of natural and unnatural carbohydrate structures. This can include the synthesis of monosaccharide residues or structures containing more than one monosaccharide,… … Wikipedia
carbohydrate — 1851, from carbo , comb. form of CARBON (Cf. carbon), + HYDRATE (Cf. hydrate) (n.), denoting compound produced when certain substances combine with water, from Gk. hydor water (see WATER (Cf. water) (n.1)). The name carbohydrate was given to… … Etymology dictionary
