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SACCHAROSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does saccharose mean?
• SACCHAROSE (noun)
The noun SACCHAROSE has 1 sense:
1. a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
Familiarity information: SACCHAROSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
saccharose; sucrose
Hypernyms ("saccharose" is a kind of...):
disaccharide (any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)
plant product (a product made from plant material)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saccharose"):
brain sugar; galactose (a simple sugar found in lactose)
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