Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a group of organic compounds that includes sugars, starches, celluloses, and gums and serves as a major energy source in the diet of animals. These compounds are produced by photosynthetic plants and contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, usually in the ratio 1:2:1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A general name for a group of organic bodies containing 6 carbon atoms or some multiple of 6, and hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion in which they form water (H2O), that is, twice as many hydrogen as oxygen atoms, as starch, sugar, and cellulose. Also carbhydrate.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry, nutrition A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant; a saccharide.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Etymologies
- From their general formula Cn(H2O)n; they were once thought to be hydrates of carbon. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While the facts just brought out have much to do with food economy, they are of interest here chiefly because they help to make clear the term carbohydrate, which, as will be admitted, is the only correct name for the food substance it represents.”
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
“The other three elements, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, go to make up the carbohydrates; in fact, it is from the names of these three elements that the term carbohydrate is derived.”
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
“And this is where the name carbohydrate comes from - "carbo" represents the carbon atoms, while the oxygen and hydrogen atoms represent water, or "hydrates".”
“Haworth did outstanding work in carbohydrate chemistry, establishing the ring structure of glucose.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
“Eating a great deal of carbohydrate is not good for the subset of the population with inherited insulin resistance, because it tends to make the condition worse.”
“MAF controls the production of insulin, glucagon and glucagon-like peptides, which play a role both in carbohydrate metabolism as well as food intake.”
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Three New Genetic Loci for Severe Obesity
“There are also individual alterations in carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism.”
“Cutting carbs from your diet may have short-term weight loss benefits due to water loss from a decrease in carbohydrate stores, but eating carbs in moderation does not directly lead to weight gain.”
“What is commonly called carbohydrate addiction should probably be relabeled as calorie addiction,” she added.”
“A lot of the body's stored carbohydrate is burned while sleeping, and that's energy the brain needs to have a productive morning.”
USATODAY.com - Day of rest means eating right, a lot for Armstrong
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carbohydrate’.
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
spud, tater, starchy, tuberous, <i>Solanum tubero..., <i>Phytophthora i..., potato blight, late blight, blight, Ireland, Irish potato, lumper and 331 more...
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
dust bowl, walking stick, rain forest, cherry tree, sugar maple, asteroid belt, boll weevil, weather forecast, sulphur dioxide, lake trout, heart rate, rainbow trout and 480 more...
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Car- Trouble
career, careen, carom, carnage, cartwheeling, carter, caribou, carabiner, caracara, caracole, carafe, carageenan and 29 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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kewpid's Words
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