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Oligosaccharide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.
  2. 2
    any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis wordnet

Etymology

From oligo- + saccharide.

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