Definitions for hexose

hexose hex·ose

Spelling: [hek-sohs]
IPA: /ˈhɛk soʊs/

Hexose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in hexose (eehosx).

Definitions for hexose

noun

  1. any of a class of sugars containing six atoms of carbon, including glucose and fructose.

Origin of hexose

First recorded in 1890-95; hex- + -ose2

Examples for hexose

Euler and Fodor however did not obtain a hexose in this way .

Many of the common heavy metals, when in alkaline solutions, are strongly reduced when boiled with solutions of the hexose sugars.

These were the hexose constituents of the hydrolysed complex, the pentoses (or 'furfuroids') surviving intact.

When hydrolyzed, they yield arabinose and a hexose; the latter is sometimes galactose and sometimes mannose.

On the other hand, Harden and Young regard the acid as a diphosphoric ester of a hexose.

Word Value for hexose
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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