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monosaccharide

1) Simple sugars, carbohydrates which cannot be decomposed by hydrolysis. They are colorless crystalline substances with a sweet taste and have the same general formula CnH2nOn. (From Dorland, 28th ed)

2) A sugar not decomposable to simpler sugars by hydrolysis -- called also simple sugar.

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