"polysaccharide" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: polysaccharides [plural]
Etymology: From poly- + saccharide. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|poly|saccharide}} poly- + saccharide Head templates: {{en-noun}} polysaccharide (plural polysaccharides)
  1. (biochemistry) A polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds. Wikipedia link: polysaccharide Categories (topical): Carbohydrates, Polymer Synonyms: polysaccharide Hypernyms: carbohydrate Related terms: monosaccharide, oligosaccharide Translations (complex carbohydrate): polisacàrid [masculine] (Catalan), 多醣 (Chinese Cantonese), 多糖 (do¹ tong⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 多醣 (Chinese Mandarin), 多糖 (duōtáng) (Chinese Mandarin), polysacharid [masculine] (Czech), polysacharide [neuter] (Dutch), polysakkaridi (Finnish), polysaccharide [masculine] (French), Polysaccharid [neuter] (German), poliszacharid (Hungarian), polisakarida (Indonesian), polisaccaride [masculine] (Italian), 多糖 (tatō) (alt: たとう) (Japanese), hukarau (Maori), پلیساکارید (poli-sâkârid) (Persian), polisacharyd [masculine] (Polish), polissacarídeo [masculine] (Portuguese), polisacárido [masculine] (Spanish), polysackarid [neuter] (Swedish), polisakkarit (Turkish), полісахари́д (polisaxarýd) [masculine] (Ukrainian), поліцукри́д (policukrýd) (Ukrainian)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.