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glucoses

  • plural
    of glucose.
    glucose
    noun
    a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form dextroglucose, or d-glucose occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form levoglucose, or l-glucose not naturally occurring.

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Sugars may be divided into two classes,—the sucroses, C12H22O11, and the glucoses, C6H12O6.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips