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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates;
[syn: monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Monosaccharide \Mon`o*sac"cha*ride\, n. Also -rid \-rid\ . [Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.) A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

monosaccharide n 1: a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates [syn: monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar]