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lev·u·lose

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–noun Chemistry.

fructose.

[Origin: 1870–75; lev- + -ule + -ose²

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n. A very sweet sugar, C₆H₁₂O₆, occurring in many fruits and honey and used as a preservative for foodstuffs and as an intravenous nutrient. Also called fruit sugar, levulose.

[Latin frūctus, fruit; see fruit + -ose².]

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lev·u·lose Audio Help (lěv'yə-lōs', -lōz') Pronunciation Key
n. See fructose.

[lev(o)- + -ul(e) + -ose².]

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levulose
noun
a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits [syn: fructose]

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In"vert\, a. (Chem.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

Invert sugar (Chem.), a variety of sugar, consisting of a mixture of dextrose and levulose, found naturally in fruits, and produced artificially by the inversion of cane sugar (sucrose); also, less properly, the grape sugar or dextrose obtained from starch. See Inversion, Dextrose, Levulose, and Sugar.

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