lactophenol
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A solution of phenol and lactic acid in glycerol and water. It is a component of the biological stain lactophenol cotton blue.
Uncountable
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin lacder. English lacto- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der. French phènebor. English phenol English lactophenol From lacto- + phenol.