hydroxycinnamic
adjective
hydroxycinnamic is an adjective meaning “Derived from or pertaining to hydroxycinnamic acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y-C-I-N-N-A-M-I-C, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hydroxycinnamic mean?
adjective
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Derived from or pertaining to hydroxycinnamic acid
a hydroxycinnamic ester
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydroxycinnamic?
Hydroxycinnamic appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 hydroxycinnamic come from?
From hydroxy- + cinnamic. Back-formation from hydroxycinnamic acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).