Pentose

Origin

-("five") + ose("sugar") + -

Full definition of pentose

Noun

1. (carbohydrate) A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose

Hypernyms

• monosaccharide

Hyponyms

• ketopentose

• ribulose
• xylulose

• aldopentose

• ribose
• arabinose
• xylose
• lyxose

• deoxyribose

Anagrams

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• open set