Fructose
ahd-5
noun.
A very sweet sugar, C
6
H
12
O
6
, occurring in many fruits and honey and used as a preservative for foodstuffs and as an intravenous nutrient.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In
chem.
, sugar of fruit, or levulose (C
6
H
12
O
6
).
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Fruit sugar; levulose.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A
monosaccharide
ketose
sugar
, formula C6H12O6.
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noun.
a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits