sugar
1. a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
refined sugar
• Hypernyms:
sweetening, sweetener
• Hyponyms:
caramel, caramelized sugar, lump sugar, sugarloaf, sugar loaf,
loaf sugar, cane sugar, granulated sugar, beet sugar, corn sugar, brown sugar
2. an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals;
includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances;
are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain
• Syn:
carbohydrate, saccharide
• Hypernyms:
macromolecule, supermolecule
• Hyponyms:
ribose, beet sugar, cane sugar, deoxyribose, invert sugar,
maple sugar, monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide,
polyose, jaggery, jagghery, jaggary, wood sugar, xylose
3. informal terms for money
• Syn:
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero,
dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre,
lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels,
simoleons, wampum
• Derivationally related forms:
cabbage (for: cabbage)
• Hypernyms:
money
sweeten with sugar (Freq. 1)
- sugar your tea
• Syn:
saccharify
• Hypernyms:
sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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