pentose

pentose [pen-tohs] ExamplesWord Origin noun Chemistry.

a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C5H10O5, or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.

Origin of pentose German (1890); see pent(a)-, -ose2 Examples from the Web for pentose Historical Examples of pentose

From the solution the author isolated crystalline galactose, but failed to isolate a pentose.

C. F. Cross

The time increase was less pronounced in the presence of the three pentose sugars used.

N. L. VanDemark

It is usual to regard furfural as invariably produced from a pentose residue.

C. F. Cross

But most of the natural gums yield a mixture of galactose, some pentose, and some complex organic acid.

Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

They bear the same relation to the pentose sugars as do the dextrosans to glucose, etc.

Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

British Dictionary definitions for pentose pentose noun

any monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon per molecule: occur mainly in plants and the nucleic acids

Word Origin for pentose C20: from penta- + -ose ² pentose in Medicine pentose [pĕn′tōs′, -tōz′] n.

Any of a class of monosaccharides having five carbon atoms per molecule and including ribose and several other sugars.

pentose in Science pentose [pĕn′tōs′]

Any of a class of simple sugars (monosaccharides) having five carbon atoms per molecule. Ribose and deoxyribose are pentoses.