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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An enzyme, such as invertase or lactase, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides to monosaccharides.

Wiktionary

  1. n. biochemistry Any of a class of glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that break down disaccharides into monosaccharides.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides

Etymologies

  1. disaccharide +‎ -ase (Wiktionary)

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  1. enzyme

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  1. lactase
  1. saccharase
  1. invertase
  1. sucrase
  1. lactaid

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