Sucroses

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A type of sugar consisting of glucose and fructose units; commonly found in many plants and used as a sweetener in food; important as an energy source in biological systems
2. A disaccharide composed of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; naturally present in sugarcane and sugar beets; utilized widely in cooking and metabolic processes
3. A carbohydrate formed by the chemical bonding of glucose and fructose molecules; abundant in various fruits and vegetables; serves as a primary sweetening agent and energy provider in organisms

Etymology: "Sucroses" is the plural of sucrose, the name chemists give to a sugar made of glucose and fructose units. Sucrose combines French "sucre", meaning sugar, with the English chemical suffix "-ose", as in glucose, which marks a sugar. "Sucre" descends from Sanskrit "śárkarā", which passed westward through Persian and Arabic before reaching Old Italian and Old French.

Synonyms: sugars, disaccharides