dicarboxylic

1. 1.

   containing two carboxyls per molecule

Questions about dicarboxylic

What does dicarboxylic mean?

dicarboxylic means "containing two carboxyls per molecule".

How many syllables are in dicarboxylic?

dicarboxylic has 5 syllables and divides as di-car-box-y-lic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is dicarboxylic a common word?

dicarboxylic 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.