noun. Any of various simple sugars, such as glucose and fructose, that have six carbon atoms per molecule.

noun. A simple sugar (monosaccharide) containing six atoms of carbon.

noun. Any member of a group of sugars containing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp. in ripe fruits.

noun. A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms.

noun. a monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule

"Harden and Young also demonstrated that the process stops before all sugar (glucose) has been used up, but it starts again on addition of inorganic phosphate, and they suggested that hexose phosphates are formed in the early steps of fermentation. von Euler had done important work on the structure of co-zymase, shown to be nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD, earlier called DPN)."

monosaccharide  monosaccharose  simple sugar  

aldohexose  fucose  fuculose  ketohexose  rhamnose