oxybutyric acid

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   hydroxy derivative of butyric acid

   Synonymshydroxybutyric acid

   Broaderbutyric acid

   Narrowerbeta-hydroxybutyric acid

Questions about oxybutyric acid

What does oxybutyric acid mean?

oxybutyric acid means "hydroxy derivative of butyric acid".

What is another word for oxybutyric acid?

Close synonyms include hydroxybutyric 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 oxybutyric acid a common word?

oxybutyric 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.