Word.ws English Dictionary

heptanoyl

heptanoyl noun: the univalent radical derived from heptanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group.

Noun

heptanoyl (plural heptanoyls)

  1. (especially, in-compounds) The univalent radical derived from heptanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group

Forms of heptanoyl

pluralheptanoyls

Questions about heptanoyl

What does heptanoyl mean?
Heptanoyl means the univalent radical derived from heptanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group.
What part of speech is heptanoyl?
Heptanoyl is a noun.
What is the plural of heptanoyl?
The plural of heptanoyl is heptanoyls.

Words near heptanoyl in the dictionary

  1. heptanol
  2. heptanols
  3. heptanone
  4. heptanones
  5. heptanonitrile
  6. heptanoyl
  7. heptanoyls
  8. heptanuclear
  9. heptanucleotide
  10. heptanucleotides
  11. heptaose

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heptanoyl (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: “heptanoyl.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heptanoyl. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.