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Definition of Glycoside

1. Noun. A group of compounds derived from monosaccharides.

Definition of Glycoside

1. Noun. (context: organic chemistry biochemistry) A molecule in which a sugar group (the glycone) is bound to a non-sugar group (the corresponding aglycone) by a nitrogen or oxygen atom. Glycosides yield a sugar after undergoing hydrolysis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glycoside

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Glycoside

1. Any compound that contains a carbohydrate molecule (sugar), particularly any such natural product in plants, convertible, by hydrolytic cleavage, into sugar and a nonsugar component (aglycone) and named specifically for the sugar contained, as glucoside (glucose), pentoside (pentose), fructoside (fructose) etc. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glycoside

Literary usage of Glycoside

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1880)
".The glycoside, dissolving more difficultly in spirits, is identical ... a glycoside which is formed by the action of a ferment on one of the glycosides. ..."

2. Ending the War Metaphor: The Changing Agenda for Unraveling the Host-Microbe by Forum on Microbial Threats, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2006)
"By contrast, our 2.85-Gb genome only contains 98 known or putative glycoside hydrolases and is deficient in the enzyme activities required for degradation ..."

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