ETYM French sucre sugar. Related to Sugar.
A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent; SYN. saccharose.
Cane or beet sugar.
Or cane sugar or beet sugar; C12H22O10 a sugar found in the pith of sugar cane and in sugar beets. It is popularly known as sugar.
Sucrose is a disaccharide sugar, each of its molecules being made up of two simple sugar (monosaccharide) units: glucose and fructose.