polyhydroxy

Questions

What does polyhydroxy mean?

Having three or more hydroxy functional groups.

Where does polyhydroxy come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English hydroxy English polyhydroxy From poly- + hydroxy.

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