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say it: GLOO-kohs
glucose is a noun meaning "a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy". It is pronounced /ˈɡluˌkoʊs/ — GLOO-kohs. It carries one recorded sense.
a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glucose come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.