Sugar

Quick meaning: Sugar is a noun meaning (countable) Any specific variety of sugar.

Meaning

(countable) Any specific variety of sugar.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
2. A bowl or other container of sugar.
3. (countable) A term of endearment.
4. (uncountable, slang) Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
5. (uncountable) A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
6. (countable, chemistry) Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.
7. (chiefly southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

Example Sentences

Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.

Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars.

At the end of the second week there were less reducing sugars in the unpruned plants than in the previous week, but those in the pruned plants were the same.

The major free sugars in plants are the monosaccharides, glucose and fructose (and the disaccharide sucros), together with traces of xylose, rhamnose and galactose.

Word Forms

• sugars
• sugaring
• sugared

Synonyms for sugar

Depending on context, synonyms include sweeten, sugar-coat, babe, precious, baby, babycakes.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include carbohydrate, saccharide, sugarcane, candy, sweetener, sweetness.

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