Any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

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A tetrasaccharide is a carbohydrate which gives upon hydrolysis four molecules of the same or different monosaccharides . For example, stachyose upon hydrolysis gives one molecule each of glucose and fructose and two molecules of galactose . The general ...

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n. any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

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n. (context carbohydrate English) Any oligosaccharide having four sugar residues