hydroxybutyric acid

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   hydroxy derivative of butyric acid

   Synonymsoxybutyric acid

   Broaderbutyric acid

   Narrowerbeta-hydroxybutyric acid

Questions about hydroxybutyric acid

What does hydroxybutyric acid mean?

hydroxybutyric acid means "hydroxy derivative of butyric acid".

What is another word for hydroxybutyric acid?

Close synonyms include oxybutyric acid. 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 hydroxybutyric acid a common word?

hydroxybutyric 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.