Word.ws English Dictionary

metachloral

metachloral noun: a white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.

Noun

metachloral (uncountable)

  1. A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.

Origin of metachloral

From meta- + chloral.

Questions about metachloral

What does metachloral mean?
Metachloral means a white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.
What part of speech is metachloral?
Metachloral is a noun.

Words near metachloral in the dictionary

  1. metachemical
  2. metachemistry
  3. metachert
  4. metacherts
  5. metachlamydeous
  6. metachloral
  7. metachloroperoxybenzoic acid
  8. metacholine
  9. metachondromatosis
  10. metachromasia
  11. metachromasy

Source and license

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