brain sugar

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   a simple sugar found in lactose

   Synonymsgalactose

   Broadersucrose

Questions about brain sugar

What does brain sugar mean?

brain sugar means "a simple sugar found in lactose".

What is another word for brain sugar?

Close synonyms include galactose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brain sugar a common word?

brain sugar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.