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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent [syn: sucrose, saccharose]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from French sucre sugar Date: 1857 a sweet crystalline dextrorotatory disaccharide sugar C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ that occurs naturally in most plants and is obtained commercially especially from sugarcane or sugar beets

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Chem. sugar, a disaccharide obtained from sugar cane, sugar beet, etc. Etymology: F sucre SUGAR

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sucrose Su"crose`, n. [F. sucre sugar. See Sugar.] (Chem.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type. Note: Sucrose proper is a dextrorotatory carbohydrate, C12H22O11. It does not reduce Fehling's solution, and though not directly fermentable, yet on standing with yeast it is changed by the diastase present to invert sugar (dextrose and levulose), which then breaks down to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is also decomposed to invert sugar by heating with acids, whence it is also called a disaccharate

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Sucrose is a common type of sugar. (TECHNICAL)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cane-sugar.