dextrose

See also: Dextrose

English

Etymology

From dextro- +‎ -ose (“right 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 L-glucose form, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research. "Levose" is a misspelling of levulose (also misspelled as levolose), D-fructose, due 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

• 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

Anagrams

• detoxers

French

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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.