Carbohydrate Definition

kärbō-hīdrāt
carb, carbohydrates, carbs
noun
carbohydrates
Any of certain organic compounds, including the sugars, starches, and celluloses, which usually have the general formula Cx(H2O)y: carbohydrates are subdivided into monosaccharides, disaccharides, etc., and form an important class of foods in animal nutrition, supplying energy to the body.
Webster's New World
A food, such as bread, rice, or potatoes, that is composed largely of these substances.
American Heritage Medicine

(organic chemistry, nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant; a saccharide.

These microbes are primarily responsible for breaking down cellulose and other carbohydrates into volatile fatty acids (VFAs).
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Other Word Forms of Carbohydrate

Noun

Singular:
carbohydrate
Plural:
carbohydrates

Origin of Carbohydrate

  • From their general formula Cn(H2O)n; they were once thought to be hydrates of carbon.

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Carbohydrate Sentence Examples

  • It is an albumin, and not a carbohydrate as was formerly held; and gives most of the colour reactions of albumins.

  • This energy is obtained especially by the chioroplastids, and part of it is at once devoted to the construction of carbohydrate material, being thus turned from the kinetic to the potential condition.

  • Starch, indeed, wherever it appears in the plant seems to be a reserve store of carbohydrate material, deposited where it is found for longer or shorter periods till it is needed for consumption.

  • Diabetes mellitus Nicotine releases catecholamines which can affect carbohydrate metabolism.

  • The steps which lead from the appearance of formaldehyde to that of the first well-defined carbohydrate are again matters of speculation.

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