grape sugar

American  

noun

1. dextrose.

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grape sugar British  

noun

1. another name for dextrose

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Etymology

Origin of grape sugar

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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grape sugar

Earlier studies have already suggested that grapevine characteristics such as flowering and grape sugar ripeness may be linked to climatic changes.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024

I don’t mean wines that are presented as dry, even though they may contain quite a bit of residual sweetness, that is, grape sugar that was not fermented into alcohol.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021

The Reich Air Ministry, at Hitler's own suggestion, stirred up a weird brew of grape sugar, soybeans, cocoa, meat and kola-nut extract, cast it into a "Luftwaffe bar" for tired pilots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Insoluble silicious and aluminous matter 53.57 100.00 The sugar of the cane and grape sugar are distinguished by the following difference in their elements, as proved by analysis:— Canesugar.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

A further advance toward maturity discloses cane sugar with the other substances, and at full maturity perfect canes contain much cane sugar and little grape sugar and starchy matter.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various