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sugar extracted from starch, typically by treatment with sulphuric acid; = dextrose, n.
= dextrose, n. or glucose, n.
A sugar which is the predominant naturally occurring form of the monosaccharide glucose, distinguished by being dextrorotatory; d-glucose.