Definition of "polysaccharide" []

• Any of a class of carbohydrates, such as starch and cellulose, consisting of a number of monosaccharides joined by glycosidic bonds. (noun)

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• "The pneumococcal polysaccharide is linked to a harmless protein."
• "The first example of the fundamental role of the sugar nucleotides in polysaccharide biosynthesis was found by Leloir in 1959 in the case of glycogen."
• "Ultraviolet light breaks open chitosan, a complex carbohydrate called a polysaccharide, revealing another set of reactive arms."