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mucosaccharide

mucosaccharide is the alternative form of mucopolysaccharide.

Meaning of mucopolysaccharide

Noun

mucopolysaccharide (plural mucopolysaccharides)

  1. Any polysaccharide consisting of alternating units of uronic acids and glycosamines, sometimes esterified with sulfuric acid.

Forms of mucosaccharide

pluralmucosaccharides

Origin of mucosaccharide

From muco- + saccharide.

Questions about mucosaccharide

What is mucosaccharide the alternative form of?
Mucosaccharide is the alternative form of mucopolysaccharide.

Words near mucosaccharide in the dictionary

  1. mucormycosis
  2. mucormycotic
  3. mucoromycete
  4. mucoromycetes
  5. mucosa
  6. mucosaccharide
  7. mucosaccharides
  8. mucosae
  9. mucosal
  10. mucosalivary
  11. mucosalization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mucosaccharide (page history and authors); mucopolysaccharide (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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