Saccharose

Another name for sucrose, which literally means "sugar sugar"; a water-soluble disaccharide which is used as our everyday table sugar. It is produced by most plants but is most commonly extracted from sugarcane and sugar beets.

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Sac"cha*rose` (?), n. Chem.

Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.

 

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