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Definition of Glucoside

1. Noun. A glycoside derived from glucose.

Definition of Glucoside

1. n. One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.

Definition of Glucoside

1. Noun. (biochemistry) A glycoside that yields glucose after hydrolysis. ¹

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Definition of Glucoside

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Glucoside

1. Any of a number of compounds, typically extracted from plants, that can be hydrolysed into dextrose. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glucoside

Literary usage of Glucoside

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"Fifty cc of a solution containing 5 grms. of o-methyl glucoside was mixed with 50 cc of a maltase extract prepared from dried yeast (Proc. Roy. Soc., vol. ..."

2. The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides by Edward Frankland Armstrong (1919)
"On standing, slow conversion of the /3-methyl glucoside into the more stable ... Such a process is somewhat tedious when /3-methyl glucoside is the object ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1908)
"Vanillin glucoside (glucoside of ... glucoside). J. Phenolic Acids. Salicylic acid glucoside. ... (gallic acid glucoside ; tannic acid glucoside). 8. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1908)
"Vanillin glucoside (glucoside of ... glucoside). 7. Phenolic Acids. Salicylic acid glucoside. ... (gallic acid glucoside ; tannic acid glucoside). 8. ..."

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