taxol
/ˈtæksɒl/noun
taxol is a noun meaning “A taxane, C₄₇H₅₁NO₁₄, used to treat cancer; Taxol” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-X-O-L and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of taxol is taxols.
What does taxol mean?
noun
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A taxane, C₄₇H₅₁NO₁₄, used to treat cancer; Taxol.
noun
- 1
Taxol, paclitaxel: a drug (a mitotic inhibitor) used to kill dividing tumour cells.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce taxol?
- /ˈtæksɒl/
Taxol has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-taxol.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of taxol
- taxols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is taxol?
Taxol appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th 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 taxol come from?
From Latin taxus (“yew”) + -ol. Named by the researchers who isolated it from the bark of the Pacific yew in 1967, Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani, from the scientific Latin term Taxus (a genus name).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).