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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain [syn: carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1869 any of various neutral compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (as sugars, starches, and celluloses) most of which are formed by green plants and which constitute a major class of animal foods

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Biochem. any of a large group of energy-producing organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, e.g. starch, glucose, and other sugars.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Carbohydrate Car`bo*hy"drate, n. [Carbon + hydrate.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(carbohydrates) Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates. ...carbohydrates such as bread, pasta or chips. N-VAR: usu pl

Moby Thesaurus

barley sugar, beet sugar, cellulose, clinical dextran, deoxyribose, dextran, dextrose, erythrose, fructose, galactose, glucose, glycogen, grape sugar, hydroxy aldehyde, hydroxy ketone, lactose, levulose, lyxose, maple sugar, molasses, monosaccharide, nipa sugar, pentose sugar, polysaccharide, polysaccharose, raffinose, saccharide, starch, sucrose, sugar, tree molasses, trisaccharide