"disaccharide" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /daɪˈsækəɹaɪd/ [UK] Forms: disaccharides [plural]
Etymology: From di- + saccharide. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|di|saccharide}} di- + saccharide Head templates: {{en-noun}} disaccharide (plural disaccharides)
  1. (biochemistry) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together. Wikipedia link: disaccharide Categories (topical): Carbohydrates Synonyms: disaccharide Hypernyms: carbohydrate Hyponyms: sucrose, lactose, maltose, rutinose, trehalose, turanose, cellobiose Meronyms: monosaccharide Coordinate_terms: monosaccharide, trisaccharide, tetrasaccharide, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide Translations (a sugar consisting of two monosaccharides): disacàrid [masculine] (Catalan), 雙醣 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 双糖 or 雙糖 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 双糖 (siang-thn̂g) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 雙醣 (Chinese Cantonese), 双糖 or 雙糖 (soeng² tong⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 双糖 (soeng¹ tong⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 二醣 (Chinese Cantonese), 二糖 (ji⁶ tong⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 雙醣 (Chinese Mandarin), 双糖 or 雙糖 (shuāngtáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 双糖 (shuāngtáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 二醣 (Chinese Mandarin), 二糖 (èrtáng) (Chinese Mandarin), disacharid [masculine] (Czech), disakarido (Esperanto), disakkaridi (Finnish), disaccharide [masculine] (French), diholoside [masculine] (French), Disaccharid [neuter] (German), tvísykra [feminine] (Icelandic), disaccaride [masculine] (Italian), 二糖 (nitō) (alt: にとう) (Japanese), disacharyd [masculine] (Polish), dissacarídeo [masculine] (Portuguese), дисахари́д (disaxaríd) [masculine] (Russian), дисахарид [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), disaharid [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), disacárido [masculine] (Spanish), disackarid [common-gender] (Swedish), disakkarit (Turkish)

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  "word": "disaccharide"
}

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