What does "pentose" mean?

A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.

Pentose

Common synonyms include: five-carbon, five-carbon sugar, pentose sugar, pentose-containing, pentose-related.

noun

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Noun

1
A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.
"Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose."
2
any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule wordnet

"Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose."

Internationalism, from penta- (“five”) + -ose.