aldehyde group

1. 1.

   the chemical group -CHO

   Synonymsaldehyde radical

   Broadergroup

Questions about aldehyde group

What does aldehyde group mean?

aldehyde group means "the chemical group -CHO".

What is another word for aldehyde group?

Close synonyms include aldehyde 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 aldehyde group a common word?

aldehyde 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.