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

  • noun A salt or ester of saccharic acid.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In chem., a salt of either of the saccharic acids. (See saccharic.)

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

  • noun A salt of saccharic acid.
  • noun In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.

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

  • noun A salt or ester of saccharic acid.
  • noun A metallic derivative of a sugar, usually with a bivalent metal - especially sucrate (not used systematically)

Etymologies

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

[sacchar(ic acid) + –ate.]

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