trihydroxy

1. 1.

   containing three hydroxyl groups

Questions about trihydroxy

What does trihydroxy mean?

trihydroxy means "containing three hydroxyl groups".

How many syllables are in trihydroxy?

trihydroxy has 4 syllables and divides as tri-hy-drox-y 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 trihydroxy a common word?

trihydroxy 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.