dextrose

From dextro- +‎ -ose (“right sugar”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/

dextrose (countable and uncountable, plural dextroses)

1. The naturally-occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.

Levose is not the antonym L-glucose form, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research. "Levose" is a misspelling of levulose (also misspelled as levolose), D-fructose, due to those origins.

• D-glucose / D-Glucose
• dextroglucose

• L-glucose / L-Glucose (levorotatory form of glucose)

• glucose
• aldohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide

• levulose (left sugar)

• detoxers

dextrose m (uncountable)

1. dextrose (sugar)

• “dextrose” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).