carboxyl group

1. 1.

   the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids

   Synonymscarboxyl

   Broadergroup

Questions about carboxyl group

What does carboxyl group mean?

carboxyl group means "the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids".

What is another word for carboxyl group?

Close synonyms include carboxyl. 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 carboxyl group a common word?

carboxyl 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.