hydroxycholesterol
noun
hydroxycholesterol is a noun meaning “Any of several hydroxy derivatives of cholesterol, some of which are metabolic intermediates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-C-H-O-L-E-S-T-E-R-O-L, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydroxycholesterol is hydroxycholesterols.
What does hydroxycholesterol mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several hydroxy derivatives of cholesterol, some of which are metabolic intermediates
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydroxycholesterol
- hydroxycholesterols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydroxycholesterol?
Hydroxycholesterol 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 hydroxycholesterol come from?
From hydroxy + cholesterol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).