Definitions for ketohexose

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ketohexose ke·to·hex·ose

Spelling: [kee-toh-hek-sohs]

IPA: /ˌki toʊˈhɛk soʊs/

Ketohexose is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in ketohexose (eeehkoostx).

Definitions for ketohexose

noun

1. any of a class of sugars composed of six carbon atoms and a ketone group, as fructose.

Origin of ketohexose

First recorded in 1895-1900; keto- + hexose

Examples for ketohexose

Similarly, for a ketohexose, which contains three asymmetric carbon atoms, there are eight possible arrangements.

Sorbose is the only other ketohexose which has any importance in plant chemistry.