deoxyribose

Meaning of deoxyribose

noun

A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that constitute the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

Information about deoxyribose

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of deoxyribose is: deoxyriboses.
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Hyphenation of deoxyribose

de-oxyri-bose

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • deoxyribose is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with deoxyribose

Bose, bose, gibbose, camiglibose, cribose, desoxyribose, dibenzoylribose, difluororibose, diphosphoribose, ethylthioribose, methylthioribose, phosphomethylthioribose, polyribose, ribose, thioribose, voglibose, bulbose, corymbose, dambose, nimbose, subcorymbose, thrombose, globose, lobose, ovatoglobose, semiglobose, subglobose, turbinatoglobose, acarbose, herbose, morbose, sorbose, unverbose, verbose, DuBose

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