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Answer for the clue "Five-carbon sugar ", 6 letters:
ribose

Alternative clues for the word ribose

Sugar that's a component of RNA
Biochemical sugar
RNA sugar
Nucleic acid sugar
RNA component
Monosaccharide in guanosine

Word definitions for ribose in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1892, from German Ribose (1891), from Ribonsäure , a tetrahydroxy acid, with first element shortened and arbitrarily rearranged from English arabinose (c.1880), a sugar which is so called because it is formed from gum arabic .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ribose is a carbohydrate with the formula CHO; specifically, it is a pentose monosaccharide (simple sugar ) with linear form H−(C=O)−(CHOH)−H, which has all the hydroxyl groups on the same side in the Fischer projection . The term may refer to either of ...