chlorogenic
adjective
chlorogenic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to chlorogenic acids or their derivatives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-O-R-O-G-E-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chlorogenic mean?
adjective
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Of or pertaining to chlorogenic acids or their derivatives
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chlorogenic?
Chlorogenic appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Chlorogenic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Of or pertaining to chlorogenic acid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chlorogénique |
| Portuguese | clorogênico |
| Spanish | clorogénico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chlorogenic come from?
From chloro- + -genic, referring to the green colour resulting from oxidation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).