Glucoside

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glucoside \Glu"co*side\, n. [See {Glucose}.] (Chem.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glucoside
       n : a glycoside derived from glucose