Glycoside Definition

glīkə-sīd
glycosides
noun
Any of a group of sugar derivatives, widely distributed in plants, which on hydrolysis yield a sugar and one or more other substances.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Glycoside

Noun

Singular:
glycoside
Plural:
glycosides

Origin of Glycoside

  • From glyco- (“a sugar”), + -ide (similar to glucoside), 1925–1930.

    From Wiktionary

  • glycose a monosaccharide (variant of glucose) –ide

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Glycoside Sentence Examples

  • It is a glycoside said to signal the brain that you are satisfied even when eating less.

  • This study revealed that the action of Hoodia's steroidal glycoside was directly on the hypothalamus, the part of the brain controlling appetite.

  • With cardiac glycosides, NSAIDs may exacerbate cardiac failure, reduce GFR and increase plasma cardiac glycoside levels.

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Words Starting With

GGLGLY

Words Ending With

EDEIDE

Unscrambles

glycoside

Words Starting With G and Ending With E

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