indoleacetic acid

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   a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots

   SynonymsIAA

   Broaderauxin

Questions about indoleacetic acid

What does indoleacetic acid mean?

indoleacetic acid means "a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots".

What is another word for indoleacetic acid?

Close synonyms include IAA. 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 indoleacetic acid a common word?

indoleacetic 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.