fruit sugar

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   a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits

   Synonymsfructoselevuloselaevulose

   Broaderketohexose

Questions about fruit sugar

What does fruit sugar mean?

fruit sugar means "a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits".

What is another word for fruit sugar?

Close synonyms include fructose, levulose, laevulose. 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 fruit sugar a common word?

fruit 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.