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  • English Word Saccharate Definition In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.
  • English Word Saccharic Definition Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.
  • English Word Sacchariferous Definition Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.
  • English Word Saccharified Definition of Saccharify
  • English Word Saccharify Definition To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.
  • English Word Saccharifying Definition of Saccharify
  • English Word Saccharilla Definition A kind of muslin.
  • English Word Saccharimeter Definition An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.
  • English Word Saccharimetrical Definition Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry.
  • English Word Saccharimetry Definition The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.
  • English Word Saccharin Definition A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
  • English Word Saccharinate Definition A salt of saccharinic acid.
  • English Word Saccharinate Definition A salt of saccharine.
  • English Word Saccharine Definition Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.
  • English Word Saccharine Definition A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.
  • English Word Saccharinic Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.
  • English Word Saccharize Definition To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.
  • English Word Saccharized Definition of Saccharize
  • English Word Saccharizing Definition of Saccharize
  • English Word Saccharoid Definition Alt. of Saccharoidal
  • English Word Saccharoidal Definition Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.
  • English Word Saccharometer Definition A saccharimeter.
  • English Word Saccharomyces Definition A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.
  • English Word Saccharomycetes Definition A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.
  • English Word Saccharonate Definition A salt of saccharonic acid.
  • English Word Saccharone Definition An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.
  • English Word Saccharone Definition A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid.
  • English Word Saccharonic Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.
  • English Word Saccharose Definition Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.
  • English Word Saccharous Definition Saccharine.