malt sugar

1. 1.

   a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches

   Synonymsmaltose

   Broaderdisaccharide

Questions about malt sugar

What does malt sugar mean?

malt sugar means "a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches".

What is another word for malt sugar?

Close synonyms include maltose. 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 malt sugar a common word?

malt 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.