Word.ws English Dictionary

biphosphonate

biphosphonate noun: any compound that has two phosphonate groups.

Noun

biphosphonate (plural biphosphonates)

  1. Any compound that has two phosphonate groups
  2. bisphosphonate

Forms of biphosphonate

pluralbiphosphonates

Origin of biphosphonate

From bi- + phosphonate.

Questions about biphosphonate

What does biphosphonate mean?
Biphosphonate means any compound that has two phosphonate groups.
What part of speech is biphosphonate?
Biphosphonate is a noun.
What is the plural of biphosphonate?
The plural of biphosphonate is biphosphonates.

Words near biphosphonate in the dictionary

  1. biphosphates
  2. biphosphine
  3. biphosphoglycerate
  4. biphosphoglycerates
  5. biphosphoglyceric acid
  6. biphosphonate
  7. biphosphonates
  8. biphosphorylated
  9. biphosphorylation
  10. biphosphorylations
  11. biphotochromic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: biphosphonate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “biphosphonate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/biphosphonate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.