Melitose

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus).

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melitose
n. the name given by Berthelot to thesugar obtained from the manna of Eucalyptus mannifera.Chemical...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris