methanolic
methanolic adjective: submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
Adjective
methanolic (not comparable)
- Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- The catalyst solution (0.5M methanolic sodium methoxide) is made by dissolving dry sodium in anhydrous methanol and is stable for several months.1999, F. D. Gunstone, Lipid Synthesis and Manufacture, page 324
- In the case Anabaena fertilissima only two extracts i.e. methanolic and ethyl acetate extracts were found active as compared to previously studied Anabaena variabilis.2009, Purshotam Kaushik, Cyanobacteria: Antibacterial Activity, page 147
Noun
methanolic (plural methanolics)
- A compound that contains methanol.
- The residue was now an amorphous powder, which could be almost completely dissolved in 250 cc. of warm methanol. This methanolic was treated with decolorizing charcoal, filtered, and concentrated, yielding small white cubic crystals, […]1960, Clyde de Clifford Willson, Studies in the Pyrrole Series
- The isolates tested showed the highest susceptibility to the extracts with higher phenolic compounds content, ie the methanolics.2014 January, V Pereira, C Dias, MC Vasconcelos, E Rosa, MJ Saavedra, “Antibacterial activity and synergistic effects between Eucalyptus globulus leaf residues (essential oils and extracts) and...
Examples of methanolic in a sentence
- Methanolics and aqueous leaf extracts revealed the presences of alkaloids, tannins, phenols and flavonoid in high amount in most of the plants.2015, TB Saidu, M Galadima, ME Abalaka, AA Jigam, “Antibacterial activity of eight medicinal plants against Diarrhoea pathogens”, in...
- The P. nodiflora methanolic was studied for antidiabetic effect in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.2023 August 7, T. Pullaiah, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology of Medicinal Plants, 2-volume set, CRC Press, →ISBN:
Forms of methanolic
| plural | methanolics |
|---|
Origin of methanolic
From methanol + -ic.
Words formed from methanolic
Questions about methanolic
- What does methanolic mean?
- Methanolic means submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- How do you use methanolic in a sentence?
- Methanolics and aqueous leaf extracts revealed the presences of alkaloids, tannins, phenols and flavonoid in high amount in most of the plants.
- What part of speech is methanolic?
- Methanolic can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near methanolic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: methanolic (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: “methanolic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/methanolic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.