hydroxybutyric
adjective
hydroxybutyric is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-B-U-T-Y-R-I-C, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hydroxybutyric mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydroxybutyric
- more hydroxybutyric comparative
- most hydroxybutyric superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydroxybutyric?
Hydroxybutyric appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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 hydroxybutyric come from?
From hydroxy + butyric.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).