ribose - a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid

beet sugar - sugar made from sugar beets

cane sugar - sucrose obtained from sugar cane

deoxyribose - a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids

invert sugar - a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose

macromolecule, supermolecule - any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals

maple sugar - sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree

monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar - a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates

oligosaccharide - any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

polyose, polysaccharide - any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules

jaggary, jaggery, jagghery - unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap

wood sugar, xylose - a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics