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Disaccharide vs Carbohydrates - What's the difference?

disaccharide | carbohydrates |

As nouns the difference between disaccharide and carbohydrates

is that disaccharide is any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together while carbohydrates is plural of lang=en.

disaccharide

English

(wikipedia disaccharide)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (carbohydrate) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.

    • Hyponyms

    * sucrose * lactose * maltose * trehalose * turanose * cellobiose

    Coordinate terms

    * monosaccharide * trisaccharide * tetrasaccharide * oligosaccharide * polysaccharide

    carbohydrates

    English

    Noun

    (head)