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English
Etymology
From saccharo- + -oid.
Pronunciation
Adjective
saccharoid (comparative more saccharoid, superlative most saccharoid)
- (mineralogy) Having a texture like granulated sugar.
- Synonym: saccharoidal
Noun
saccharoid (plural saccharoids)
- (biochemistry) A polysaccharide that resembles a sugar, often insoluble and not sweet.
1898, Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann, Joseph Merritt Matthews, Commercial Organic Analysis:A sweet taste is possessed by nearly all sugars, to a greater or less extent, though in some of the rarer saccharoids the character is very feebly marked.
1938, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 125, page 467:While the errors of the indirect procedure are chiefly manifested at high blood sugar levels, still we feel that in any critical study of the saccharoids the direct yeast procedure is the method of choice.
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