dextrose

See also: Dextrose

English

Etymology

From dextro- +‎ -ose (“right-handed sugar”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/

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Noun

dextrose (countable and uncountable, plural dextroses)

1. The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
   • 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds‎^[1], London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:

     The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

Usage notes

*Levose is not the antonym denoting the L-glucose form, owing to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research. *Levose is a misspelling of levulose (also misspelled as *levolose), denoting D-fructose, owing to those origins.

Synonyms

• D-glucose / D-Glucose
• dextroglucose

Antonyms

• L-glucose / L-Glucose (levorotatory form of glucose)

Hypernyms

• glucose
• aldohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide

Holonyms

• dextrin

Derived terms

• nondextrose
• phenose
• polydextrose

 

Related terms

• dextrin
• levulose (left sugar)

Translations

naturally-occurring form of glucose

• Catalan: dextrosa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 右旋糖 (yòuxuántáng)

• Czech: dextróza f
• Danish: druesukker
• Finnish: dekstroosi (fi)
• French: dextrose (fr) m
• German: Traubenzucker (de) m, Dextrose (de) f
• Hungarian: dextróz (hu)
• Italian: destrosio m
• Japanese: デキストロース (dekisutorōsu), 右旋糖 (usentō)
• Khmer: មធុរជាតិ (mea’tʰu’rea’ciet), ដិចស្ត្រូស (dəcstrouh)
• Korean: 덱스트로오스 (dekseuteurooseu)
• Norwegian: druesukker
• Portuguese: dextrose f
• Spanish: dextrosa (es) f
• Swedish: druvsocker (sv) n
• Turkish: dekstroz (tr)

Anagrams

• detoxers

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

dextrose m (uncountable)

1. dextrose (sugar)

Further reading

• “dextrose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.