Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hydroxynaphthoquinone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hy-drox-y-naph-tho-quinone
IPA

55

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any derivative of a naphthoquinone through replacement of one hydrogen atom by a hydroxyl group.

Etymology

From hydroxy + naphthoquinone.

Inflected Forms

hydroxynaphthoquinones (plural)

Derived Forms

dihydroxynaphthoquinone trihydroxynaphthoquinone tetrahydroxynaphthoquinone pentahydroxynaphthoquinone hexahydroxynaphthoquinone

Questions

What does hydroxynaphthoquinone mean?: Any derivative of a naphthoquinone through replacement of one hydrogen atom by a hydroxyl group.
Where does hydroxynaphthoquinone come from?: From hydroxy + naphthoquinone.

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