fructose

See also: Fructose

English

Etymology

From Latin fructus (“fruit”) + -ose (“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌk.təʊz/, /ˈfɹʊk.təʊz/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌk.toʊs/, /ˈfɹʊk.toʊs/, /ˈfɹuk.toʊs/

Noun

fructose (countable and uncountable, plural fructoses)

1. (biochemistry) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C₆H₁₂O₆.

Synonyms

• acrose
• fruit sugar

Hypernyms

• ketohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide

Hyponyms

• lævulose, laevulose, levulose
• D-fructose
• L-fructose
• levoglucose

Holonyms

• fructan

Derived terms

• D-fructose
• fructosamine
• fructose 1,6-bisphosphate
• fructose 6-phosphate
• fructosediphosphate
• fructose syrup
• fructoside
• fructosyl
• glucose-fructose
• glucose-fructose syrup
• glutose
• high fructose corn syrup
• high-fructose corn syrup
• high-fructose maize syrup
• hyperfructosemia
• L-fructose
• nonfructose
• oligofructose
• xylosylfructose

 

Related terms

• fructan

Translations

monosaccharide ketose sugar

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

  Cantonese: 果糖 (gwo² tong⁴)

  Hokkien: 果糖 (kó-thn̂g)

  Mandarin: 果糖 (zh) (guǒtáng)

• Czech: fruktóza (cs) f
• Danish: fruktose c
• Dutch: fructose (nl) m or f, vruchtensuiker (nl) m
• Esperanto: fruktozo
• Finnish: fruktoosi (fi), hedelmäsokeri (fi)
• French: fructose (fr) m
• Galician: frutosa (gl) f
• German: Fruchtzucker (de) m, Fructose (de) f, Fruktose f
• Greek: φρουκτόζη (el) f (frouktózi)
• Hawaiian: huakō
• Hindi: फलधु (phaldhu)
• Hungarian: fruktóz (hu), gyümölcscukor (hu)
• Icelandic: frúktósi m
• Indonesian: fruktosa (id)
• Italian: fruttosio (it) m
• Japanese: フルクトース (furukutōsu), 果糖 (ja) (かとう, katō)
• Korean: 과당(果糖) (ko) (gwadang)
• Lithuanian: fruktozė f
• Maori: hukahua, huka huarākau
• Marathi: फलधु (phaldhu)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: фруктоз (fruktoz), жимсний чихэр (žimsnii čixer) (China)

• Nepali: फलधु (phaladhu)
• Norwegian: fruktose, fruktsukker
• Persian: فروکتوز (fruktôz)
• Polish: fruktoza (pl) f
• Portuguese: frutose (pt) f
• Romanian: fructoză (ro) f
• Russian: фрукто́за (ru) f (fruktóza)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фруктоза

  Roman: fruktoza (sh)

• Slovak: fruktóza (sk)
• Slovene: fruktoza f, sadni sladkor m
• Spanish: fructosa (es) f
• Swedish: fruktos (sv), fruktsocker (sv)
• Thai: ฟรักโทส (th), ฟรุกโทส
• Turkish: fruktoz (tr), meyve şekeri
• Welsh: ffrwctos m

Anagrams

• Corfutes, forecuts

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin fructus +‎ -ose.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fruc‧to‧se

Noun

fructose f or m (uncountable)

1. fructose

Synonyms

• vruchtensuiker

French

Noun

fructose m (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) fructose

Further reading

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