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Fructose

Fruc-tose′

(frŭk-tōs′ or frŭk′tōs)

,

Noun.

[L.

fructus

fruit.]

(Chem.)

Fruit sugar; levulose.

[R.]

Definition 2024

Fructose

Fructose

See also: fructose

German

Alternative forms

Fruktose

Noun

Fructose f ‎(genitive Fructose, plural Fructosen)

fructose

Synonyms

Fruchtzucker

fructose

fructose

See also: Fructose

English

Noun

fructose ‎(countable and uncountable, plural fructoses)

(biochemistry) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C₆H₁₂O₆.

Synonyms

fruit sugar

Hyponyms

Hypernyms

Derived terms

fructose syrup

Translations

monosaccharide ketose sugar

Bulgarian: фруктоза f ‎(fruktoza), плодова захар f ‎(plodova zahar)
Catalan: fructosa f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 果糖 ‎(gwo² tong⁴)

Mandarin: 果糖 (zh) ‎(guǒtáng)

Min Nan: 果糖 ‎(kó-thn̂g)
Czech: fruktóza f
Danish: fruktose c
Dutch: fructose (nl) m, f, vruchtensuiker (nl) m
Esperanto: fruktozo
Finnish: fruktoosi (fi), hedelmäsokeri (fi)
French: fructose (fr) m
German: Fruchtzucker m, Fructose (de) f, Fruktose f
Greek: φρουκτόζη (el) f ‎(frouktózi)
Hawaiian: huakō
Hindi: फलधु ‎(phaladhu)
Icelandic: frúktósi m
Italian: fruttosio (it) m

Japanese: フルクトース ‎(furukutōsu), 果糖 (ja) ‎(かとう, katō)
Korean: 과당 (ko) ‎(gwadang) (果糖 (ko))
Lithuanian: fruktozė f
Maori: hukahua, huka huarākau
Marathi: फलधु ‎(phaldhu)
Nepali: फलधु ‎(phaladhu)
Norwegian: fruktose, fruktsukker
Persian: فروکتوز ‎(froktoz)
Polish: fruktoza (pl) f
Portuguese: frutose (pt) f
Romanian: fructoză (ro) f
Russian: фрукто́за (ru) f ‎(fruktóza)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: фруктоза

Roman: fruktoza (sh)
Spanish: fructosa (es) f
Swedish: fruktos (sv), fruktsocker (sv)
Thai: ฟรักโทส, ฟรุกโทส
Welsh: ffrwctos m

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: fruc‧to‧se

Etymology

From Latin fructus +‎ -ose.

Noun

fructose f, m ‎(uncountable)

fructose

Synonyms

vruchtensuiker

French

Noun

fructose m ‎(uncountable)

(biochemistry) fructose