hexose

hex- (“six”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”)

hexose (plural hexoses)

1. (biochemistry) A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms.

   Glucose is a common hexose

• monosaccharide

• ketohexose

• psicose
• fructose
• sorbose
• tagatose

• aldohexose

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

• fucose
• fuculose
• rhamnose

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zoz/

hexose f (plural hexoses)

1. hexose

• “hexose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

hexose f (plural hexoses)

1. (biochemistry) hexose (a sugar containing six carbon atoms)