LEVULOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does levulose mean? 

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

1. a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVULOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

fructose; fruit sugar; laevulose; levulose

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

ketohexose (a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group)

 Context examples 

This species is motile by up to four peritrichous flagella, catalase positive, hemolytic, produces acid from glucose, trehalose, levulose and salacin, indole negative and does not reduce nitrate.

(Listeria monocytogenes, NCI Thesaurus)