DISACCHARIDASE

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Meaning:

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("disaccharidase" is a kind of...):

enzyme (any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disaccharidase"):

invertase; saccharase; sucrase (an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose)

Lactaid; lactase (any of a group of enzymes (trade name Lactaid) that hydrolyze lactose to glucose and galactose)