GLUCOSIDE
glucoside
(noun) a glycoside derived from glucose
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
glucoside (plural glucosides)
(biochemistry) A glycoside that yields glucose after hydrolysis.
Hypernyms
• glycoside
Source: Wiktionary
Glu"co*side, n. Etym: [See Glucose.] (Chem.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition