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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trade-name of the sodium salt of saccharin. See saccharin, 2.
  • noun The general name of any crystalline sugar having the formula C12H22O11 which suffers hydrolysis on heating with water or dilute mineral acid, each molecule yielding two molecules of a glucose.
  • noun Specifically, the ordinary pure sugar of commerce, obtained from the sugar-cane or sorghum, from the beet-root, and from the sap of a species of maple.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See sucrose.

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  • noun biochemistry sucrose

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent

Etymologies

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From saccharo- + -ose

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