fucose
noun
fucose is a noun meaning “The aldohexose (3S,4R,5R,6S)-6-methyloxane-2,3,4,5-tetrol present in several glycans and mucopolysaccharides” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-C-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fucose is fucoses.
What does fucose mean?
noun
- 1
The aldohexose (3S,4R,5R,6S)-6-methyloxane-2,3,4,5-tetrol present in several glycans and mucopolysaccharides
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fucose
- fucoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fucose?
Fucose appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fucose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense aldohexose present in several glycans:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fucose |
| Spanish | fucosa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fucose come from?
From Latin fucus (“seaweed, kelp”) + -ose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).