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pentose

pentose noun: a sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.

Noun

pentose (plural pentoses)

  1. A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.
    • Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose.

pentose meaning in Hindi and Tamil

pentose in Hindi

saccharide containing five carbon atoms
पंचधु pañcdhu

pentose in Tamil

பெந்தோசு

Forms of pentose

pluralpentoses
alternative formpentaose

Origin of pentose

Internationalism, from penta- (“five”) + -ose.

Words formed from pentose

Questions about pentose

What does pentose mean?
Pentose means a sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.
What is pentose in Hindi?
Pentose in Hindi is पंचधु (pañcdhu). See Pentose meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pentose?
Pentose is a noun.
What is the plural of pentose?
The plural of pentose is pentoses.

Words near pentose in the dictionary

  1. pentosan polysulfate
  2. pentosane
  3. pentosanes
  4. pentosanpolysulfate
  5. pentosans
  6. pentose
  7. pentose phosphate pathway
  8. pentoses
  9. pentoside
  10. pentosides
  11. pentosidine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pentose (page history and authors); pentose (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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