Word.ws English Dictionary

desosamine

desosamine noun: the amino sugar 3,4,6-trideoxy-3-(dimethylamino)-D-xylo-hexose that is a component of some macrolide antibiotics.

Noun

desosamine (uncountable)

  1. The amino sugar 3,4,6-trideoxy-3-(dimethylamino)-D-xylo-hexose that is a component of some macrolide antibiotics

Questions about desosamine

What does desosamine mean?
Desosamine means the amino sugar 3,4,6-trideoxy-3-(dimethylamino)-D-xylo-hexose that is a component of some macrolide antibiotics.
What part of speech is desosamine?
Desosamine is a noun.

Words near desosamine in the dictionary

  1. Desorcy
  2. desorption
  3. desorptions
  4. desorptive
  5. desos
  6. desosamine
  7. desosaminyl
  8. desosaminyls
  9. desotamide
  10. desotamides
  11. DeSoto

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: desosamine (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “desosamine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/desosamine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.