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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A carbohydrate that yields three monosaccharides upon hydrolysis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Chem.) A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.

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  • noun biochemistry An oligosaccharide consisting of three monosaccharide units joined together

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  • noun any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield three monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

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