carbohydrate

1. 1.

   an essential 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

   Synonymssaccharidesugar

   Broadermacromolecule

   Narrowerribosebeet sugarcane sugardeoxyriboseinvert sugarmaple sugarmonosaccharideoligosaccharidepolysaccharidejaggery

Other forms of carbohydrate

plural

carbohydrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carbohydrate

What does carbohydrate mean?

carbohydrate means "an essential 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".

How many syllables are in carbohydrate?

carbohydrate has 4 syllables: car-bo-hy-drate. The stress falls on "hy". In IPA it is /ˌkɑɹboʊˈhaɪˌdɹeɪt/.

What is another word for carbohydrate?

Close synonyms include saccharide, sugar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbohydrate a common word?

carbohydrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with carbohydrate?

1 word rhymes with carbohydrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.