Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun milk_sugar

1 sense of milk sugar

Sense 1
lactose, milk sugar -- (a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk; "cow's milk contains about 4.7% lactose")
       => disaccharide -- (any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)