glucoside

American  

[gloo-kuh-sahyd] / ˈglu kəˌsaɪd /

noun

1. any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.

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glucoside British  

/ ˌɡluːkəʊˈsɪdɪk, ˈɡluːkəʊˌsaɪd /

noun

1. biochem any of a large group of glycosides that yield glucose on hydrolysis

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glucoside Scientific  

/ glo̅o̅′kə-sīd′ /

1. A glycoside in which the sugar component is glucose.

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Other Word Forms

• glucosidal adjective
• glucosidic adjective

Etymology

Origin of glucoside

First recorded in 1865–70; glucos(e) ( def. ) + -ide

Example Sentences

For this module, the authors engineered their strain to express an enzyme called PLA UDP-glucosyltransferase, which is found in the deadly nightshade plant Atropa belladonna and catalyses the production of PLA glucoside.

From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020

The tropine produced in module II and the PLA glucoside from module III are imported into the vacuole.

From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020

In module V, tropine and PLA glucoside are transported into the vacuole and together converted to littorine.

From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020

The plant turned out to contain cyanogenic glucoside, a precursor to cyanide.

From Nature

Isoquercitrin, C21H20O12, is derived from the same flavone, but contains glucose instead of rhamnose, as the sugar constituent of the glucoside.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred