sugar

1. A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative (synset 107875260)
   is a type of: sweetener, sweetening - something added to foods to make them taste sweeter
   subtypes:

   • caramel, caramelized sugar - burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food
   • lump sugar - refined sugar molded into rectangular shapes convenient as single servings
   • loaf sugar, sugar loaf, sugarloaf - a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar
   • cane sugar - sugar from sugarcane used as sweetening agent
   • granulated sugar - sugar in the form of small grains
   • beet sugar - sugar from sugar beets used as sweetening agent
   • corn sugar - dextrose used as sweetening agent
   • brown sugar - unrefined or only partly refined sugar
   same as: refined 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 (synset 114816873)
   is a type of: macromolecule, supermolecule - any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals
   subtypes:

   • ribose - a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid
   • beet sugar - sugar made from sugar beets
   • cane sugar - sucrose obtained from sugar cane
   • deoxyribose - a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids
   • invert sugar - a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose
   • maple sugar - sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree
   • monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar - a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
   • oligosaccharide - any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
   • polyose, polysaccharide - any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules
   • jaggary, jaggery, jagghery - unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
   • wood sugar, xylose - a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
   same as: carbohydrate, saccharide
3. Informal terms for money (synset 113406389)
   is a type of: money - the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
   same as: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum

1. Sweeten with sugar (synset 202200397)
   "sugar your tea"
   is a type of: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten - make sweeter in taste
   same as: saccharify

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