Fruit sugar Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits
    laevulose; levulose; fructose.

WordNet

Definitions
  1. (Chem.), a kind of sugar occurring, naturally formed, in many ripe fruits, and in honey; levulose. The name is also, though rarely, applied to invert sugar, or to the natural mixture or dextrose and levulose resembling it, and found in fruits and honey.
Definitions
  1. . See under Fruit, and Fructose.

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