<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A sugar, C₆H₁₂O₆, having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form dextroglucose, or d-glucose occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar.</li><li>The rare levorotatory form levoglucose, or l-glucose not naturally occurring.</li><li>Also called starch syrup: a syrup containing dextrose, maltose, and dextrine, obtained by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>