glyceric aldehyde

1. 1.

   a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars

   Synonymsglyceraldehyde

   Broaderaldehyde

Questions about glyceric aldehyde

What does glyceric aldehyde mean?

glyceric aldehyde means "a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars".

What is another word for glyceric aldehyde?

Close synonyms include glyceraldehyde. 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 glyceric aldehyde a common word?

glyceric aldehyde 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.