English

galactosugar

From galacto- + sugar.

A compound of galacto- + sugar

New Latin

English galacto-

Old French çucre ‘sugar’

Middle English sugre ‘sugar’

English sugar

Today it means

noun Any sugar that has at least one galactose moiety

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