Sucrose

['s(j)uːkrəʊz;-əʊs] or ['sjʊkros]

Definition

(noun.) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent.

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Definition

(n.) 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. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Cane sugar.

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Definition

n. the white crystalline compound known variously as cane-sugar beet-sugar maple-sugar.

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