Pentose

Definition: Pentose

Pentose

Noun

1. Any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule.

Note: Pentose \Pen"tose\, noun. [Penta- -ose.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Any of a class of monosaccharides C5 H10 O5(as xylose or ribulose)containing five carbon atoms in the molecule that are obtained especially from pentosan, nucleic acids, or nucleosides by hydrolysis or from hexoses by degradation. Source: European Union. (references)
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A pentose is an organic chemical compound (carbohydrate) with five carbon atoms.

Both ribose and deoxyribose are pentoses.

Crosswords: Pentose

English words defined with "pentose": ribose. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pentose": Glycogen Storage Disease Type VII ♦ Lamivudine ♦ non-fermentable sugar ♦ pentosan, Pentosephosphate Pathway, Pentosyltransferases, Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase ♦ Saponins. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Microbial Pentose Utilization: Current Applications in Biotechnology (Progress in Industrial Microbiology, Vol 33) (reference) The Pentose Phosphate Pathway (reference) (more book examples)
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Language		Translations for "pentose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		戊糖. (various references)

Danish		pentose. (various references)

Dutch		pentose. (various references)

Finnish		pentoosi. (various references)

French		pentose. (various references)

German		Pentose. (various references)

Greek		πεντόζη. (various references)

Italian		pentoso C5H1005. (various references)

Pig Latin		entosepay

Portuguese		pentose. (various references)

Spanish		pentosa. (various references)

Swedish		pentos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pentose": pentoses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "pentose" (pronounced 'Pen"tose'): Cretose, Cutose, galactose, Inactose, Pectose. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: openest, posteen, poteens.
	Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: netops, peones, pontes, poteen, topees.
	-2 letters: estop, neeps, netop, notes, onset, opens, peens, penes, peons, pesto, poets, pones, sente, seton, spent, steep, steno, stone, stope, teens, tense, tones, topee, topes.
	-3 letters: eons, epos, neep, nest, nets, noes, nope, nose, note, ones, open, opes, opts, peen, pees, pens, pent, peon, peso, pest, pets, poet.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: neotypes, pentodes, pentoses, peptones, posteens, postteen, potences, potheens, potteens.
	+2 letters: antelopes, conepates, copestone, copresent, deponents, entrepots, entropies, ethephons, exponents, eyepoints, genotypes, interpose, neophytes, optionees, outpreens, overspent, penstemon, penthouse, personate, petronels, phenetols, pipestone, plenteous, potencies, stenotype, twopences.
	+3 letters: appointees, compensate, copestones, copresents, deceptions, depletions, despondent, diplotenes, elopements, endophytes, exceptions, exemptions, gantelopes, hypotenuse, impotences, interlopes, interposed, interposer, interposes, leptotenes, nonexperts, nonseptate, notepapers, opalescent, panettones, penstemons, penthouses, pentoxides, pentstemon, personated, personates, phenolates, phenotypes, pigeonites, pipestones, pointelles, politeness, polytenies, polythenes, potentates, precentors, premoisten, pretension, proteinase, protensive, receptions, repletions, respondent, spleenwort, stenotyped, stenotypes, telephones, terpenoids, terpineols, thiophenes, toxaphenes, treponemas, treponemes.
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