carbohydrate
Meaning of carbohydrate
- any of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose. They contain hydrogen and oxygen in the same ratio as water (2:1) and typically can be broken down to release energy in the animal body.
water-soluble carbohydrates
dehydrated foods high in carbohydrate
carbohydrate metabolism
mid 19th century: from carbo- + hydrate.
Information about carbohydrate
- It is a name.
- The plural form of carbohydrate is: carbohydrates.
- Languages in which carbohydrate is used:
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Hyphenation of carbohydrate
car-bo-hy-drate
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- carbohydrate is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
carbohydrate synonyms
Meaning saccharide:
Translation of carbohydrate
- German: Kohlenhydrat
- French: glucide
- Spanish: carbohidrato
- Italian: carboidrato
Words that rhyme with carbohydrate
rate, Garate, Glucarate, Nazarate, Separate, acetylglutarate, alizarate, aminoglutarate, aminomethylglutarate, amylfumarate, azidomethylglutarate, bicalcarate, bromofumarate, bromoglutarate, bromoketoglutarate, bromostearate, calcarate, carate, chlorofumarate, comparate, coumarate, dibromostearate, dicyanofumarate, diepoxystearate, difluorofumarate, difumarate, dihydroxyfumarate, dihydroxystearate, diiodostearate, dimethylglutarate, disparate, distearate, ditartarate, ecalcarate, eleostearate, epithiostearate, epoxystearate, equiparate, exarate, excalcarate, exhilarate, fluorofumarate, fluoroglutarate, fluorostearate, fumarate, galactarate, glucarate, glutarate, gularate, hexafluoroglutarate