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Glycoside

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of a group of organic compounds, occurring abundantly in plants, that yield a sugar and one or more nonsugar substances on hydrolysis.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A molecule in which a sugar group (the glycone) is bound to a non-sugar group (the corresponding aglycone) by a nitrogen or oxygen atom. Glycosides yield a sugar after undergoing hydrolysis.

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n. a group of compounds derived from monosaccharides

Word Usage

"The plant stores the cyanide in an inactive form, typically as a cyanogenic glycoside, which is a sugar molecule with an attached cyanide group (carbon triple-bonded to nitrogen)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

organic compound

Hyponym

nucleoside glucoside strophanthin

Form

multiglycoside nonglycoside azidoglycoside glycosylglycoside

Same Context

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