grape sugar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of grape sugar
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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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
When cane sugar is treated with tartaric acid, especially under the influence of heat, it is converted into grape sugar.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
Scheibler has isolated a substance that is more powerful in that respect than grape sugar.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various
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