Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A crystalline disaccharide of fructose and glucose, C12H22O11, found in many plants but extracted as ordinary sugar mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets, widely used as a sweetener or preservative and in the manufacture of plastics and soaps. Also called saccharose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A general name for the sugars identical in composition and in general properties with cane-sugar, having the formula (C12H22O11)n: same as saccharose.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry A disaccharide with formula C12H22O11, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also
saccharose ,cane sugar , etc. At one time the term was used by extension, for any one of the class of isomeric substances (aslactose ,maltose , etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type; however this usage is now archaic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
Etymologies
- From French sucre ("sugar"), derivation of Latin saccharum + -ose ("full of"). (Wiktionary)
- French sucre, sugar; see sucrase + -ose2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Meanwhile, sucrose is simply consumed by all bacteria, Zehner said.”
“Well, for one thing, high fructose corn syrup has a substantially worse effect on blood sugar than does the equivalent sweetness in sucrose from sugar cane.”
“Just as sucrose is made of two simple sugars bound together, lactose is made of the two simple sugars glucose and galactose, bound together.”
“The sugars found in our drinks are made up of the sugars in fruit juice and sucrose, which is needed to ensure that our drinks taste great – without it, they would taste too sharp.”
“The results are extremely concerning, but few commercial beverages are sweetened only with fructose; most are sweetened with sucrose, which is half glucose and half fructose.”
The Huffington Post: Tim Harlan, M.D.: Sugary Drinks And Your Risk Of Disease
“The counterargument is that sucrose, which is half fructose and half glucose, occurs naturally in fruit, and humans have eaten it for thousands of years.”
“Dextrose -- another term for glucose. glucose and fructose together make sucrose, which is commonly known as table sugar.”
“Table sugar is sucrose, which is half glucose and half fructose.”
Food trends from Expo West | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
“A food does not have to be made with table sugar called sucrose in order to deliver sugar to the cells.”
“Table sugar is sucrose, which is made by joining a molecule of glucose with one of fructose.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sucrose’.
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Sugar
sugar, sugar cube, sugar of lead, The Sugarcubes, table sugar, sucrose, sugar cane, sugar beet, brown sugar, sugar alcohol, sugar of milk, sugar orchard and 129 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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I Found A Rose
List of words that contain the string of letters "rose" - from aprosexia nasalis to prosectionist.
aprosexia nasalis, prosectionist, erose, roseate, tuberose, morose, grosella, retrosexual, serose, arose, Drosera, haroset and 156 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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AGRI - sugar sector
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the sugar sector.
HU translations: arable crops, bioethanol distil..., bioethanol outlet, cereals, chicory, common market org..., Everything But Ar..., energy crops, export refund, Generalised Syste..., intervention price, inuline syrup and 83 more... -
elvesoncrack's Words
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