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sucrose

sucrose

English

Noun

sucrose ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sucroses)

(biochemistry) A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.

Synonyms

saccharose

Translations

a disaccharide

Catalan: sacarosa (ca) f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 蔗糖 ‎(ze³ tong⁴)

Mandarin: 蔗糖 (zh) ‎(zhètáng)

Min Nan: 蔗糖 ‎(chià-thn̂g)
Czech: sacharóza f
Danish: sukrose (da), saccharose
Dutch: sacharose (nl) f, m
Esperanto: sakarozo
French: saccharose (fr) m, saccarose (fr) m
Galician: sacarosa (gl) f
German: Saccharose (de) f
Greek: σακχαρόζη f ‎(sakcharózi), καλαμοσάκχαρο (el) n ‎(kalamosákcharo)
Hindi: इक्षुधु ‎(ikshudhu)
Hungarian: cukor (hu), szacharóz (hu)
Icelandic: súkrósi m, sakkarósi m

Italian: saccarosio (it) m
Japanese: スクロース ‎(sukurōsu), 蔗糖 (ja) ‎(しょとう, shotō)
Korean: 자당 (ko) ‎(jadang) (蔗糖 (ko))
Latvian: saharoze (lv) f
Lithuanian: sacharozė f
Maori: hukatō
Marathi: इक्षुधु ‎(ikṣudhu)
Nepali: इक्षुधु ‎(ikṣudhu)
Norwegian: sukrose
Polish: sacharoza f
Portuguese: sacarose (pt) f
Russian: сахаро́за (ru) ‎(saxaróza)
Slovene: saharoza f
Spanish: sacarosa f
Swedish: sackaros (sv) c, sukros
Thai: ซูโครส

Anagrams

courses, Croesus, Crœsus, Scouser, scouser, sources

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: su‧cro‧se

Etymology

From French sucre ‎(“sugar”), derivation of Latin saccharum +‎ -ose.

Noun

sucrose f, m ‎(uncountable)

sucrose

Synonyms

sacharose

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