pentose

English

Etymology

penta- (“five”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”)

Noun

pentose (plural pentoses)

(biochemistry) A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.
Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose

Hypernyms

monosaccharide

Hyponyms

ketopentose

aldopentose

deoxyribose

Translations

saccharide containing five carbon atoms

Catalan: pentosa f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 戊醣 (mou⁶ tong⁴), 五碳醣 (ng⁵ taan³ tong⁴)

Mandarin: 戊糖 (zh) (wùtáng), 五碳糖 (zh) (wǔtàntáng)
Esperanto: pentozo
Finnish: pentoosi
Hindi: पंचधु (panchadhu)
Hungarian: pentóz

Italian: pentoso m
Japanese: ペントース (pentōsu)
Korean: 오탄당 (五炭糖, otandang), 펜토스 (pentoseu)
Portuguese: pentose f
Spanish: pentosa f
Swedish: pentos (sv)
Turkish: pentoz (tr)

Anagrams

open set, openest, pontees, posteen, poteens

Portuguese

Noun

pentose f (plural pentoses)

(biochemistry) pentose

Further reading

“pentose” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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