SUCROSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sucrose mean? 

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

1. a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCROSE (noun)

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 ("sucrose" 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 "sucrose"):

brain sugar; galactose (a simple sugar found in lactose)

 Context examples 

This species is nonmotile, oxidase negative, ferments sucrose, hydrolyzes esculin and reduces nitrate.

(Enterobacter asburiae, NCI Thesaurus)

Thus, sweeteners may substitute sugar because they mimic its sweet taste but have a negligible impact on daily energy intake and are frequently sweeter than sucrose.

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

An extended release (ER) injectable formulation composed of the hydrochloride salt form of bupivacaine, an amide-type, long-acting local anesthetic, in a resorbable sucrose acetate isobutyrate-based matrix, with analgesic activity.

(Extended Release Bupivacaine Hydrochloride Resorbable Matrix Formulation, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, pyrazinamidase positive, reduces nitrate, urease negative, non-lipophilic, does not hydrolyze esculin or gelatin, and ferments glucose, sucrose and maltose.

(Corynebacterium xerosis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, pyrazinamidase positive, does not reduce nitrate, lipophilic, does not hydrolyze esculin or gelatin, and does not ferment glucose, maltose, or sucrose.

(Corynebacterium urealyticum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase and oxidase positive, non-hemolytic, pigmented, susceptible to colistin, produces polysaccharides from sucrose, and does not produce acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose or lactose.

(Neisseria flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)

Fructose is an abundant monosaccharide in fruit, and is also found along with glucose in the common disaccharide sucrose.

(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This species is catalase and oxidase positive, non-hemolytic, produces a yellowish pigment, reduces both nitrate and nitrite, synthesizes polysaccharides, and produces acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, and sucrose, but not mannose or lactose.

(Neisseria mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)

Medications are compounded with globular shaped sucrose, lactose, or other polysaccharides and dried before administered.

(Globule Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase positive, reduces nitrite, but not nitrate, produces carbonic anhydrase, does not hydrolyze tributyrin, is non-hemolytic, and does not produce acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose, or lactose.

(Neisseria cinerea, NCI Thesaurus)