wood sugar

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   a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics

   Synonymsxylose

   Broadercarbohydrate

Questions about wood sugar

What does wood sugar mean?

wood sugar means "a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics".

What is another word for wood sugar?

Close synonyms include xylose. 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 wood sugar a common word?

wood 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.