aldehyde radical

1. 1.

   the chemical group -CHO

   Synonymsaldehyde group

   Broadergroup

Questions about aldehyde radical

What does aldehyde radical mean?

aldehyde radical means "the chemical group -CHO".

What is another word for aldehyde radical?

Close synonyms include aldehyde 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 aldehyde radical a common word?

aldehyde 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.