Hexose

Origin

From hex ("six") and -ose ("sugar").

Full definition of hexose

Noun

1. (carbohydrate) A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms.Glucose is a common hexose

Hypernyms

• monosaccharide

Hyponyms

• ketohexose

• psicose
• fructose
• sorbose
• tagatose

• aldohexose

• allose
• altrose
• glucose
• mannose
• gulose
• idose
• galactose
• talose

• fucose
• fuculose
• rhamnose