acyl group

1. 1.

   any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group

   “an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group”

   Synonymsacyl

   Broadergroup

   Narroweracetylforyml

Questions about acyl group

What does acyl group mean?

acyl group means "any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group".

What is another word for acyl group?

Close synonyms include acyl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acyl group a common word?

acyl group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.