n :  a crystalline ketohexose sugar C₆H₁₂O₆ found naturally in the D-form (as in gum from a West African tree Sterculia setigera) and also obtainable from galactose by treatment with dilute alkali .
 
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Similar sounding terms:  duc·tus 
 
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