https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.G02650
A saccharide attached to a single amino acid by any kind of @C01384@. A glycosyl-amino-acid is a compound consisting of saccharide linked through a glycosyl linkage (O-, N-, or S-) to an amino acid.
Note: The hyphens are needed to avoid implying that the carbohydrate is necessarily linked to the amino group.