| NOUN | food | refined sugar, sugar | a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative |
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| Meaning | A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative. | |
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| Synonym | sugar | |
| Narrower | beet sugar | sugar from sugar beets used as sweetening agent |
| brown sugar | unrefined or only partly refined sugar | |
| cane sugar | sugar from sugarcane / sugarcane used as sweetening agent | |
| caramel, caramelized sugar | Burnt sugar | |
| corn sugar | dextrose used as sweetening agent | |
| granulated sugar | sugar in the form of small grains | |
| lump sugar | refined sugar molded into rectangular shapes convenient as single servings | |
| sugarloaf, sugar loaf, loaf sugar | A large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar | |
| Broader | sweetening, sweetener | Something added to foods to make them taste sweeter |
| Spanish | azúcar, azúcar refinado | |
| Catalan | sucre, sucre refinat | |
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