glyoxylate
noun, verb
glyoxylate is a noun meaning “Any salt or ester of glyoxylic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-Y-O-X-Y-L-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of glyoxylate is glyoxylates.
What does glyoxylate mean?
noun
- 1
Any salt or ester of glyoxylic acid.
verb
- 1
To react with glyoxylic acid or a derivative.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of glyoxylate
- glyoxylates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- glyoxylating participle, present
- glyoxylated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is glyoxylate?
Glyoxylate appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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 glyoxylate come from?
From glyoxylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).