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hydroxybutyrates

hydroxybutyrates is the plural of hydroxybutyrate.

Meaning of hydroxybutyrate

Noun

hydroxybutyrate (plural hydroxybutyrates)

  1. any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Questions about hydroxybutyrates

What is hydroxybutyrates the plural of?
Hydroxybutyrates is the plural of hydroxybutyrate.

Words near hydroxybutyrates in the dictionary

  1. hydroxybromolactone
  2. hydroxybromolactones
  3. hydroxybutanoate
  4. hydroxybutanoates
  5. hydroxybutyrate
  6. hydroxybutyrates
  7. hydroxybutyric
  8. hydroxybutyric acid
  9. hydroxybutyric acids
  10. hydroxycalciferol
  11. hydroxycancrinite

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