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Hydroxyl group Uncommon

Origin: Greek prefix hydro-

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols

See Also
sugar alcohol
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
group
Rhyming Words
loup soup doup coup roup stoup group froup croup recoup aggroup in soup ingroup e group regroup cogroup ungroup rmgroup degroup usegroup
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