glyceric acid

1. 1.

   a syrupy acid obtained by oxidation of glycerol or glyceraldehyde

   Broaderacid

Questions about glyceric acid

What does glyceric acid mean?

glyceric acid means "a syrupy acid obtained by oxidation of glycerol or glyceraldehyde".

Is glyceric acid a common word?

glyceric 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.