alcohol radical

1. 1.

   the chemical group -OH

   Synonymsalcohol group

   Broadergroup

Questions about alcohol radical

What does alcohol radical mean?

alcohol radical means "the chemical group -OH".

What is another word for alcohol radical?

Close synonyms include alcohol group. 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 radical a common word?

alcohol radical 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.