alcohol group

1. 1.

   the chemical group -OH

   Synonymsalcohol radical

   Broadergroup

Questions about alcohol group

What does alcohol group mean?

alcohol group means "the chemical group -OH".

What is another word for alcohol group?

Close synonyms include alcohol radical. 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 alcohol group a common word?

alcohol 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.