citronellol
noun
citronellol is a noun meaning “A natural acyclic monoterpenoid, occurring in citronella oils and used in perfumes and insect repellents” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-I-T-R-O-N-E-L-L-O-L, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of citronellol is citronellols.
What does citronellol mean?
noun
- 1
A natural acyclic monoterpenoid, occurring in citronella oils and used in perfumes and insect repellents.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of citronellol
- citronellols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is citronellol?
Citronellol appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Where does citronellol come from?
From citronella + -ol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).