English
Noun
pentose (plural pentoses)
- (biochemistry) A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.
- Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose
Translations
saccharide containing five carbon atoms
- Catalan: pentosa f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 戊醣 (mou6 tong4), 五碳醣 (ng5 taan3 tong4)
- Mandarin: 戊糖 (zh) (wùtáng), 五碳糖 (zh) (wǔtàntáng)
- Esperanto: pentozo
- Finnish: pentoosi
- Hindi: पंचधु (panchadhu)
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- Hungarian: pentóz
- Italian: pentoso m
- Japanese: ペントース (pentōsu)
- Korean: 오탄당 (五炭糖, otandang), 펜토스 (pentoseu)
- Portuguese: pentose f
- Spanish: pentosa f
- Swedish: pentos (sv)
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Portuguese
Noun
pentose f
- (biochemistry) pentose.