fructose

See also: Fructose

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

fructose

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin fructus (“fruit”) + -ose (“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌk.təʊz/, /ˈfɹʊk.təʊz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌk.toʊs/, /ˈfɹʊk.toʊs/, /ˈfɹuk.toʊs/

Noun

fructose (countable and uncountable, plural fructoses)

1. (biochemistry) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C₆H₁₂O₆.

Synonyms

• acrose
• fruit sugar

Hypernyms

• ketohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide

Hyponyms

• lævulose, laevulose, levulose
• D-fructose
• L-fructose
• levoglucose

Holonyms

• fructan

Derived terms

• D-fructose
• fructosamine
• fructose 1,6-bisphosphate
• fructose 6-phosphate
• fructosediphosphate
• fructosemia
• fructose syrup
• fructoside
• fructosuria
• fructosyl
• glucose-fructose
• glucose-fructose syrup
• glutose
• high fructose corn syrup
• high-fructose corn syrup
• high-fructose maize syrup
• hyperfructosemia
• L-fructose
• nonfructose
• oligofructose
• xylosylfructose

Related terms

• fructan

Translations

monosaccharide ketose sugar

Bulgarian: фруктоза f (fruktoza), плодова захар f (plodova zahar) Catalan: fructosa f Chinese: Cantonese: 果糖 (gwo2 tong4) Hokkien: 果糖 (kó-thn̂g) Mandarin: 果糖 (zh) (guǒtáng) Czech: fruktóza (cs) f Danish: fruktose c Dutch: fructose (nl) m or f, vruchtensuiker (nl) m Esperanto: fruktozo Finnish: fruktoosi (fi), hedelmäsokeri (fi) French: fructose (fr) m Galician: frutosa (gl) f German: Fruchtzucker (de) m, Fructose (de) f, Fruktose f Greek: φρουκτόζη (el) f (frouktózi) Hawaiian: huakō Hindi: फलधु (phaldhu) Hungarian: fruktóz (hu), gyümölcscukor (hu) Icelandic: frúktósi (is) m Indonesian: fruktosa (id) Italian: fruttosio (it) m Japanese: フルクトース (ja) (furukutōsu), 果糖 (ja) (かとう, katō) Korean: 과당(果糖) (ko) (gwadang) Lithuanian: fruktozė f Maori: hukahua, huka huarākau Marathi: फलधु (phaldhu) Mongolian: Cyrillic: фруктоз (fruktoz), жимсний чихэр (žimsnii čixer) (China) Nepali: फलधु (phaladhu) Norwegian: fruktose, fruktsukker Persian: فروکتوز (fruktôz) Polish: fruktoza (pl) f Portuguese: frutose (pt) f Romanian: fructoză (ro) f Russian: фрукто́за (ru) f (fruktóza) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фруктоза Roman: fruktoza (sh) Slovak: fruktóza (sk) Slovene: fruktoza f, sadni sladkor m Spanish: fructosa (es) f Swedish: fruktos (sv), fruktsocker (sv) Thai: ฟรักโทส (th), ฟรุกโทส Turkish: fruktoz (tr), meyve şekeri Welsh: ffrwctos m

Anagrams

• Corfutes, forecuts

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

fructose

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From Latin fructus +‎ -ose.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fruc‧to‧se

Noun

fructose f or m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. fructose

Synonyms

• vruchtensuiker

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

fructose

Wikipedia ^fr

Noun

fructose m (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) fructose

Further reading

• “fructose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.