-ose

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Possessing; having the characteristics of; full of: cymose.
2. n. Carbohydrate: fructose.
3. n. Product of protein hydrolysis: proteose.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. See -ous.
2. A suffix occurring in many English adjectives, formed, most of them in recent scientific use, from Latin or Middle Latin adjectives in -osus, as bellicose, globose, jocose, morose, otiose, pilose, verbose, etc. In the seventeenth century many adjectives before that date and since spelled with -ous were often spelled with -ose, probably not always with a different pronunciation, as ambitiose, gloriose, pompose, etc. Abstract nouns in -ity from adjectives in -ose or -ous take the form -osity, as globosity, jocosity, pomposity, etc.
3. In chem.:
4. A suffix designating members of the group of sugars, as glucose, lactose, maltose, etc.
5. A suffix showing that the substance is a primary decomposition-product of a proteid, as albumose, etc.

Wiktionary

1. n. chemistry Used to form the names of sugars.
2. n. full of, like

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A suffix denoting full of, containing, having the qualities of, like; as in verbose, full of words; pilose, hairy; globose, like a globe.
2. n. (Chem.) A suffix indicating that the substance to the name of which it is affixed is a member of the carbohydrate group