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English
Etymology
Blend of laevus + l + -ose (Latin for "left" + connector "l" + sugar) (left sugar)
Noun
levulose (plural levuloses)
- (biochemistry) D-fructose, the left-rotating stereoisomer of fructose.
1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds, London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.
Usage notes
This is not L-fructose, despite being named that way; it is D-fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research
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