aldose

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ald(ehyde) + -ose

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aldose (plural aldoses)

  1. (organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of a class of monosaccharides having an aldehyde or hemiacetal functional group.
    • 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds‎[1], London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:
      The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

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aldose f (plural aldoses)

  1. (organic chemistry, biochemistry) aldose (any of a class of monosaccharides)
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