Carbohydrate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Carbohydrate \Car`bo*hy"drate\, n. [Carbon + hydrate.] (Physiol.
     Chem.)
     One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches,
     and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon
     atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen
     atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to


     form water; as dextrose, {C6H12O6}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  carbohydrate
       n : 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 [syn: {saccharide}, {sugar}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "carbohydrate":
     barley sugar, beet sugar, cellulose, clinical dextran, deoxyribose,
     dextran, dextrose, erythrose, fructose, galactose, glucose,
     glycogen, grape sugar, hydroxy aldehyde, hydroxy ketone, lactose,
     levulose, lyxose, maple sugar, molasses, monosaccharide,
     nipa sugar, pentose sugar, polysaccharide, polysaccharose,
     raffinose, saccharide, starch, sucrose, sugar, tree molasses,
     trisaccharide