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-ulose

-ulose suffix: used to form the names of ketose sugars.

Suffix

-ulose

  1. Used to form the names of ketose sugars.

Origin of -ulose

Back-formation from levulose.

Questions about -ulose

What does -ulose mean?
-ulose means used to form the names of ketose sugars.
What part of speech is -ulose?
-ulose is a suffix.

Words near -ulose in the dictionary

  1. -u-
  2. -ual
  3. -uide
  4. -ula
  5. -ule
  6. -ulose
  7. -um
  8. -umab
  9. -ums
  10. -uous
  11. -ure

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