| Levulose (n.) A syrupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left. Thesaurus Entries barley sugar, beet sugar, cellulose, clinical dextran, deoxyribose, dextran, dextrose, erythrose, fructose, galactose, glucose, glycogen, grape sugar, hydroxy aldehyde, hydroxy ketone, lactose, levulose, lyxose, maple sugar, molasses, monosaccharide, nipa sugar, pentose sugar, polysaccharide, polysaccharose, raffinose, saccharide, starch, sucrose, sugar, tree molasses, trisaccharide |