"glucose" Definition

Definitions for the word "glucose" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Sugar found in the blood or in fruit juice etc., and as a constituent of starch, cellulose, etc. [greek gleukos sweet wine]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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