oxalic

1. 1.

   of or derived from oxalic acid

Questions about oxalic

What does oxalic mean?

oxalic means "of or derived from oxalic acid".

How many syllables are in oxalic?

oxalic has 3 syllables and divides as ox-a-lic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is oxalic a common word?

oxalic 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.