(thing) by BioTech Sat Jun 15 2002 at 17:56:53
A simple sugar that has a three-carbon backbone.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Thu Jan 19 2006 at 8:22:03

Tri"ose (?), n. [Tri- + - ose.] (Chem.)

(a)

A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol.

(b)

A trisaccharide.

 

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