GLUCOSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glucoside mean? 

• GLUCOSIDE (noun)
  The noun GLUCOSIDE has 1 sense:

1. a glycoside derived from glucose

  Familiarity information: GLUCOSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUCOSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A glycoside derived from glucose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("glucoside" is a kind of...):

glycoside (a group of compounds derived from monosaccharides)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glucoside"):

amygdalin (a bitter cyanogenic glucoside extracted from the seeds of apricots and plums and bitter almonds)

saponin (any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers)

 Context examples 

This agent contains glucosides, jamboline and ellagic acid which may check the conversion of starch into sugar.

(Devil's Foot/Jambul, NCI Thesaurus)

A C-glucoside with a thiophene ring that is an orally available inhibitor of sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT2) with antihyperglycemic activity.

(Canagliflozin, NCI Thesaurus)

The anhydrous form of canagliflozin, a C-glucoside with a thiophene ring that is an orally available inhibitor of sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT2) with antihyperglycemic activity.

(Canagliflozin Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)

The same could be said about steviol glucosides, although only for intakes greater than the ADI (Acceptable Daily Intake).

(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)

These compounds are anionic sulfur-containing glucosides, produced as secondary metabolites by plants of the order Brassicales, which includes cruciferous vegetables.

(Glucosinolate, NCI Thesaurus)

Originally, the name laetrile was the contraction of laevo-mandelonitrile glucoside, a cyanogenic glycoside found naturally in some plants.

(Laetrile, NCI Thesaurus)

A cyanogenic glucoside isolated from almonds and seeds of other plants of the family Rosaceae.

(Amygdalin, NCI Thesaurus)

The four main constituent black raspberry anthocyanins that contribute significantly to the chemopreventive effects are cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3GLU), cyanidin 3-rutinoside (C3RUT), cyanidin 3-sambubioside (C3SAM) and cyanidin 3-(2(G)-xylosyl) rutinoside (C3XRUT).

(Freeze-dried Black Raspberry Bioadhesive Gel, NCI Thesaurus)

The main goal of this review has been to critically discuss the evidence supporting the effects of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), both synthetic sweeteners (acesulfame K, aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin, neotame, advantame, and sucralose) and natural sweeteners (NSs; thaumatin, steviol glucosides, monellin, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, and glycyrrhizin) and nutritive low‑calorie sweeteners (polyols or sugar alcohols) on the composition of microbiota in the human gut.

(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)