hydroxybutyrate
noun
hydroxybutyrate is a noun meaning “any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-B-U-T-Y-R-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydroxybutyrate is hydroxybutyrates.
What does hydroxybutyrate mean?
noun
- 1
any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydroxybutyrate
- hydroxybutyrates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydroxybutyrate?
Hydroxybutyrate appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 hydroxybutyrate come from?
From hydroxy + butyrate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).