Glucose : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Glucose	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Glucose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glucose n a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glucose \Glu"cose`\, n. [Gr. [?] sweet. Cf. {Glycerin}.] 1. A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also {dextrose}, {grape sugar}, {diabetic sugar}, and {starch sugar}. See {Dextrose}. 2. (Chem.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.