sterol

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssteroid alcohol

   Broaderalcoholsteroid

   Narrowercholesterolergosterol

Other forms of sterol

plural

sterols·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sterol

What does sterol mean?

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

How many syllables are in sterol?

sterol has 2 syllables: ste-rol. The stress falls on "ste".

What is another word for sterol?

Close synonyms include steroid alcohol. 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 sterol a common word?

sterol 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.