Synonyms for "ribose"

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Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

3 entries

carbohydratesaccharidesugar

Related terms

4 entries

RNAnucleosidenucleotideribonucleic acid

derived

8 entries

ADP-ribosedeoxyribosedesoxyribosephosphoriboseribonucleicribose nucleic acidribosylxanthose

etymologically related_to

1 entries

arabinose

has context

1 entries

carbohydrate

is a

8 entries

carbohydratecarbohydrate moleculechemical compoundketopentosemoleculepentose moleculeprecursor to life on earthtangible thing

related to

9 entries

biopolymernucleic acidnucleosidenucleotidepentoseriboflavinribonucleic acidrnasugar

Translations

17 translations across 17 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries

• ribosa noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

• 核糖 noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

• 核糖 noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Esperanto

1 entries

• ribozo noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

French

1 entries

• ribose noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Galician

1 entries

• ribosa noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

German

1 entries

• Ribose noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Hungarian

1 entries

• ribóz noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Italian

1 entries

• ribosio noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Japanese

1 entries

• リボース noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Polish

1 entries

• ryboza noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Portuguese

1 entries

• ribose noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Russian

1 entries

• рибо́за noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Spanish

1 entries

• ribosa noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Swedish

1 entries

• ribos noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Thai

1 entries

• ไรโบส noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

Turkish

1 entries

• riboz noun (naturally occurring pentose sugar)

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