monocarboxylic

1. 1.

   containing one carboxyl group

Questions about monocarboxylic

What does monocarboxylic mean?

monocarboxylic means "containing one carboxyl group".

How many syllables are in monocarboxylic?

monocarboxylic has 6 syllables: mo-no-car-box-y-lic. The stress falls on "y".

Is monocarboxylic a common word?

monocarboxylic 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.