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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An aldose, C6H12O5, present in certain brown algae and in the polysaccharides associated with some blood groups.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crystalline sugar, C6H12O5, obtained by heating sea weeds with dilute sulphuric acid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biochemistry The aldohexose (3S,4R,5R,6S)-6-methyloxane-2,3,4,5-tetrol present in several glycans and mucopolysaccharides

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[fuc(us) + –ose.]

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