WordNet
simple sugar
n. a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates [syn: monosaccharide, monosaccharose]
Usage examples of "simple sugar".
The professor's change in appearance went beyond a simple sugar cane knife.
The consumption of oxygen involves the oxidation of the simple sugar (glucose) brought to the brain by the bloodstream.
Nerve cells in the brain take in primarily the simple sugar glu.