tetrasaccharide

English

Etymology

From tetra- +‎ saccharide.

Noun

tetrasaccharide (plural tetrasaccharides)

1. (biochemistry) Any oligosaccharide having four sugar residues

Hyponyms

• acarbose
• nystose
• stachyose

Coordinate terms

• monosaccharide
• disaccharide
• trisaccharide
• oligosaccharide
• polysaccharide