hydroxybenzoic acid

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   a crystalline derivative of benzoic acid

   Broaderhydroxy acid

Questions about hydroxybenzoic acid

What does hydroxybenzoic acid mean?

hydroxybenzoic acid means "a crystalline derivative of benzoic acid".

Is hydroxybenzoic acid a common word?

hydroxybenzoic 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.