1. a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates; [syn: monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
simple sugar
n 1: a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse
to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
[syn: monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar]