What does "disaccharide" mean?

Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.

How do you pronounce "disaccharide"?

Pronounced //daɪˈsækəɹaɪd//.

Common synonyms include: biose, monosaccharide, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide, tetrasaccharide, trisaccharide.

//daɪˈsækəɹaɪd// noun

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Noun

1
Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.
2
any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis wordnet

From di- + saccharide.

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