arabinoside

[ ar-uh-bin-uh-sahyd, uh-rab-uh-nuh- ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. a glycoside of arabinose, especially any of those used in antiviral therapy as structural analogs of ribonucleosides.

Origin of arabinoside

1
First recorded in 1925–30; arabinose + -ide

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