Results for glucose

Definitions of glucose:

part of speech: noun

The peculiar form of sugar which exists in grapes and in other fruits.

part of speech: noun

The form of sugar existing in many animal and vegetable organisms; produced for commercial use by the action of sulphuric acid on starch.

Usage examples for glucose:

• Animal starch found in liver, which may be changed into glucose "A Practical Physiology", Albert F. Blaisdell

• Sachs had shown that the starch passes down to other parts of the plant in solution as glucose "Disease in Plants", H. Marshall Ward

• It is the usual home for the beginner, and I lived six months in one- on grindstone bread, the tinctured glucose you are probably not acquainted with as 'drips, ' and rancid pork- when I first came out to this country and hired myself, for ten dollars monthly, to another man. "Winston of the Prairie", Harold Bindloss

• The stalk of the maize is used for making smokeless powder, and the husks for two kinds of glucose two of cotton, three of gum, and two of oil. "Spanish Life in Town and Country", L. Higgin and Eugène E. Street