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fruc⋅tose

  [fruhk-tohs, frook-, frook-]
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Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C6H12O6, sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
Also called levulose, fruit sugar.

Origin:
1860–65; fruct- + -ose 2
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fruc·tose   (frŭk'tōs', frŏŏk'-)   
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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fructose 
"sugar found in fruit," 1864, coined in Eng. from L. fructus (see fruit) + chemical suffix -ose.
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Main Entry: fruc·tose
Pronunciation: 'fr&k-"tOs, 'frük-, 'fruk-, -"tOz
Function: noun
1 : an optically active sugarC6H12O6 that differs from glucose in having a ketonic rather than an aldehydic carbonyl group
2 : the very sweet soluble levorotatory D-form of fructose that occurs especially in fruit juices and honey called also levulose
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fructose fruc·tose (frŭk'tōs', fr&oobreve;k'-)
n.
A very sweet sugar occurring in many fruits and honey and used as a preservative for foodstuffs and as an intravenous nutrient. Also called fruit sugar, levulose.

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fructose   (frŭk'tōs')  Pronunciation Key 
A simple sugar (monosaccharide) found in honey, many fruits, and some vegetables. Fructose linked to glucose is the structure of table sugar, or sucrose. Fructose is an important source of energy for cellular processes. Chemical formula: C6H12O6.
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