glucofuranose etymology

English word glucofuranose comes from English -ose, English furan, English gluco- (Glucose. Sweetness.)

Detailed word origin of glucofuranose

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
-ose English (eng) (chemistry) Used to form the names of sugars. Full of, like.
furan English (eng) (organic compound) Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O.
gluco- English (eng) Glucose. Sweetness.
glucofuranose English (eng) (organic compound) The cyclic form of glucose that has a furan ring structure.

Words with the same origin as glucofuranose

Descendants of -ose
agarose arabinoside biose caseose cutose cytosine dambose decose dextrose favose fructose fructoside galactose gentianose granulose hexosamine lacunose octose paucimannose rhamnose rutinose streptose sucrose tremellose venulose
Descendants of furan
furoin furyl ranitidine
Descendants of gluco-
glucoamylase glucocentric glucocerebroside glucodigitoxigenin glucogenesis glucogenic glucohellebrin glucohydrolase glucoincretin glucokinase glucolipid glucometabolic glucometer gluconeogenesis glucopyranose glucoraphanin glucoregulation glucoregulatory glucosaccharide glucosensing glucotoxic glucotransferase phosphoglucoisomerase