polyol

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ -ol.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlɪɒl/

Noun

polyol (plural polyols)

1. (organic chemistry) Any organic compound having multiple hydroxyl functional groups, such as polyhydric alcohols.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 258:

     a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before.

Hyponyms

• -itol (and its derivatives: polyhydric alcohols)

Translations

polyhydric alcohol

• Finnish: polyoli
• Galician: poliol (gl) m
• Hungarian: többértékű alkohol sg
• Welsh: polyol m