barbituric acid

1. 1.

   a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs

   Synonymsmalonylurea

   Broaderacid

Questions about barbituric acid

What does barbituric acid mean?

barbituric acid means "a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs".

What is another word for barbituric acid?

Close synonyms include malonylurea. 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 barbituric acid a common word?

barbituric acid 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.