saccharide

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

   Synonymscarbohydratesugar

   Broadermacromolecule

   Narrowerribosebeet sugarcane sugardeoxyriboseinvert sugarmaple sugarmonosaccharideoligosaccharidepolysaccharidejaggery

Other forms of saccharide

plural

saccharides·

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 saccharide

What does saccharide mean?

saccharide 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 saccharide?

saccharide has 3 syllables: sac-cha-ride. The stress falls on "sac".

What is another word for saccharide?

Close synonyms include carbohydrate, 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 saccharide a common word?

saccharide 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.