steroid alcohol

1. 1.

   any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances

   Synonymssterol

   Broaderalcoholsteroid

   Narrowercholesterolergosterol

Questions about steroid alcohol

What does steroid alcohol mean?

steroid alcohol means "any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances".

What is another word for steroid alcohol?

Close synonyms include sterol. 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 steroid alcohol a common word?

steroid alcohol 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.