ribose

1. 1.

   a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid

   Broadercarbohydrate

Other forms of ribose

plural

riboses·

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 ribose

What does ribose mean?

ribose means "a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid".

How many syllables are in ribose?

ribose has 2 syllables: ri-bose. The stress falls on "ri".

Is ribose a common word?

ribose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.