milk sugar

1. 1.

   a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk

   “cow's milk contains about 4.7% lactose”

   Synonymslactose

   Broaderdisaccharide

Questions about milk sugar

What does milk sugar mean?

milk sugar means "a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk".

What is another word for milk sugar?

Close synonyms include lactose. 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 milk sugar a common word?

milk 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.