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deoxysugar

deoxysugar is the alternative spelling of deoxy sugar.

Meaning of deoxy sugar

Noun

deoxy sugar (plural deoxy sugars)

  1. Any compound formally derived from a sugar by replacing a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom

Forms of deoxysugar

pluraldeoxysugars

Origin of deoxysugar

From deoxy + sugar.

Words formed from deoxysugar

Questions about deoxysugar

What is deoxysugar the alternative spelling of?
Deoxysugar is the alternative spelling of deoxy sugar.

Words near deoxysugar in the dictionary

  1. deoxyribozyme
  2. deoxyribozymes
  3. deoxyspergualin
  4. deoxystreptamine
  5. deoxystreptamines
  6. deoxysugar
  7. deoxysugars
  8. deoxytalose
  9. deoxytaurocholate
  10. deoxytaurocholates
  11. deoxythymidine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deoxysugar (page history and authors); deoxy sugar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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