polyol
Any organic compound having multiple hydroxyl functional groups, such as polyhydric alcohols.
Noun
- Any organic compound having multiple hydroxyl functional groups, such as polyhydric alcohols.
- a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before. - 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short...
Origin
From poly- + -ol.