n 1  :  a salt or ester of saccharic acid  2  :  a metallic derivative of a sugar usu. with a bivalent metal (as calcium, strontium, or barium) : esp  :  SUCRATE .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  sac·cha·ride 
 
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