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saccharose

saccharose

8.1
A common plant sugar used to make food sweet
  • noun
  • /ˈsækəˌroʊs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sacarosa
  • The cake was sweetened with saccharose.

Examples

  • Beet sugar is rich in saccharose and is widely used in food production.

  • The chemist measured the concentration of saccharose in the sample.

  • Beet sugar is rich in saccharose and is widely used in food production.

  • Many fruits and vegetables naturally contain saccharose as a source of sweetness.

  • Many fruits contain saccharose naturally.

  • Many fruits and vegetables naturally contain saccharose as a source of sweetness.

  • The chemist measured the concentration of saccharose in the sample.

Synonyms

sucrose
vssaccharose
  • Specialized
12 3.2

A common sweet white sugar from plants that people use to sweeten food

is the alternative scientific name for the same disaccharide

Surface Forms

saccharose singular
saccharoses plural

Morphology

saccharose = sacchar + ose

Formed from the combining form 'sacchar-' (sugar) + the specialised chemical suffix '-ose'; neither element is a productive standalone English word for average learners, so the meaning is not inferable from components.

Etymology

Saccharose comes from the Greek word sakkharon meaning 'sugar', a root that also gave us the English word 'sugar' and the name sucrose. So saccharose is simply the sweet plant sugar often used as a sweetener.