oligosaccharide
/ɒl.ɪ.ɡəʊˈsæk.əˌɹaɪd/
oligosaccharide noun: a polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.
Noun
oligosaccharide (plural oligosaccharides)
- A polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.
oligosaccharide meaning in Tamil and Malay
oligosaccharide in Tamil
- குறை சாக்கரைடு
oligosaccharide in Malay
- polysaccharide of low molecular weight
- oligosakarida
Forms of oligosaccharide
| plural | oligosaccharides |
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Origin of oligosaccharide
From oligo- + saccharide.
Words formed from oligosaccharide
- arabinoxylooligosaccharide
- chitooligosaccharide
- diphosphooligosaccharide
- fructooligosaccharide
- galactooligosaccharide
- glucooligosaccharide
- heterooligosaccharide
- isomaltooligosaccharide
- lipooligosaccharide
- maltooligosaccharide
- mannooligosaccharide
- oligosaccharidic
- oligosaccharidosis
- pseudooligosaccharide
- sialoligosaccharide
- sialooligosaccharide
- sialyloligosaccharide
- xylooligosaccharide
Questions about oligosaccharide
- What does oligosaccharide mean?
- Oligosaccharide means a polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.
- What is oligosaccharide in Tamil?
- Oligosaccharide in Tamil is குறை சாக்கரைடு. See Oligosaccharide meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is oligosaccharide?
- Oligosaccharide is a noun.
- How do you pronounce oligosaccharide?
- Oligosaccharide is pronounced /ɒl.ɪ.ɡəʊˈsæk.əˌɹaɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of oligosaccharide?
- The plural of oligosaccharide is oligosaccharides.
Words near oligosaccharide in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: oligosaccharide (page history and authors); oligosaccharide (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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