hydroxyapatite
noun
hydroxyapatite is a noun meaning “A basic calcium phosphate mineral that is the principal inorganic constituent of bone and teeth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-A-P-A-T-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydroxyapatite is hydroxyapatites.
What does hydroxyapatite mean?
noun
- 1
A basic calcium phosphate mineral that is the principal inorganic constituent of bone and teeth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydroxyapatite
- hydroxyapatites plural
- hydroxylapatite
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydroxyapatite?
Hydroxyapatite appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 hydroxyapatite come from?
From hydroxy- + apatite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).