- glucose
[glucose 词源字典]
- glucose: see glycerine
[glucose etymology, glucose origin, 英语词源] - glucose (n.)
- name of a group of sugars (in commercial use, "sugar-syrup from starch"), 1840, from French glucose (1838), said to have been coined by French professor Eugène Melchior Péligot (1811-1890) from Greek gleukos "must, sweet wine," related to glykys "sweet" (see gluco-). It first was obtained from grape sugar. Related: Glucosic.