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Zucker — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • diabetes noun A metabolic disease in which the body can't produce or properly use insulin, resulting in high blood sugar.
  • sugar noun A sweet crystalline substance, usually made from sugar cane or sugar beet, used to sweeten food and drink.
  • Zucker name A surname of German origin, meaning "sugar," originally an occupational name for a sugar merchant.

Senses

Zucker is used for these senses in English:

  • diabetes (disease) Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. [from 19th c.]

sugar — full definition

  1. noun A sweet crystalline substance, usually made from sugar cane or sugar beet, used to sweeten food and drink.
  2. noun Any of a group of water-soluble carbohydrates, such as glucose, that provide energy to living things.
  3. verb To add sugar to something in order to sweeten it.

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