Saccharose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See sucrose.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. sucrose
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See sucrose.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A trade-name of the sodium salt of saccharin. See saccharin, 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
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    sucrose   
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    sucrose