Definitions for carbohydrate

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carbohydrate car·bo·hy·drate

Spelling: [kahr-boh-hahy-dreyt, -buh-]

IPA: /ˌkɑr boʊˈhaɪ dreɪt, -bə-/

Carbohydrate is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 23 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1071 anagrams from letters in carbohydrate (aabcdehorrty).

Definitions for carbohydrate

noun

1. any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.

Origin of carbohydrate

First recorded in 1865-70; carbo- + hydrate

Examples for carbohydrate

To obtain the carbon in carbohydrate food multiply by 0.444.

Food value, 12 grams carbohydrate, 10 grams protein, 14 grams fat.

Bread and butter afford a good combination of fat and carbohydrate.

The food value it does have is carbohydrate in the form of sugar.

The tubers are rich in the carbohydrate inulin and in sugar.

The other great member of the starch, or carbohydrate, group of foods is sugar.

In this way their carbohydrate content is reduced, probably about one-half.

Any carbohydrate in the broth is destroyed by the Bacterium coli.

In other words, “carbohydrate is driving insulin is driving fat,” says George Cahill, a professor at Harvard Medical School.

This has the simplest possible formula for a carbohydrate, CH2O.