carbohydrate (redirected from Carbohydrate metabolism)

car·bo·hy·drate  (kärb-hdrt)

n.

Any of a group of organic compounds that includes sugars, starches, celluloses, and gums and serves as a major energy source in the diet of animals. These compounds are produced by photosynthetic plants and contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, usually in the ratio 1:2:1.

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carbohydrate

Noun

any of a large group of energy-producing compounds, including sugars and starches, that contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

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carbohydrate  (kärb-hdrt)

Any of a large class of organic compounds consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, usually with twice as many hydrogen atoms as carbon or oxygen atoms. Carbohydrates are produced in green plants by photosynthesis and serve as a major energy source in animal diets. Sugars, starches, and cellulose are all carbohydrates.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

carbohydrate - an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain saccharide, sugar ribose - a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid beet sugar - sugar made from sugar beets cane sugar - sucrose obtained from sugar cane deoxyribose - a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids invert sugar - a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose macromolecule, supermolecule - any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals maple sugar - sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar - a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates oligosaccharide - any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis polyose, polysaccharide - any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules jaggary, jaggery, jagghery - unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap wood sugar, xylose - a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics

Translations

carbohydrate [kɑːbəuˈhaɪdreɪt] n → hydrate m de carbone (= food); féculent m

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carbohydrate [kɑːbəuˈhaɪdreɪt] n → Kohle(n)hydrat nt