monohydric

American  

[mon-uh-hahy-drik] / ˌmɒn əˈhaɪ drɪk /

adjective

Chemistry.

1. (especially of alcohols and phenols) monohydroxy.

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monohydric British  

/ ˌmɒnəʊˈhaɪdrɪk /

adjective

1. another word for monohydroxy, esp when applied to alcohols

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Etymology

Origin of monohydric

First recorded in 1855–60; mono- + hydr(oxyl) + -ic

Example Sentences

Open-chain monohydric alcohols, higher members of the ethyl alcohol series, such as cetyl, C16H33OH, carnaubyl, C24H49OH, ceryl, C26H53OH, and melissyl, C30H61OH, are found in the esters which constitute the major proportion of the common waxes.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

They are similar to fats in chemical composition, except that, instead of being glycerides, they are esters of monohydric alcohols of high atomic weight.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

Especially interesting appears the fact of plants utilising sugars for the esterification of acids, just as glycerol or monohydric alcohols may be employed for the same purpose.

From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg

Field groups the solvents of pyroxyline into classes thus: Two of the monohydric alcohols; compound ethers of the fatty acids with monohydric alcohols, aldehydes; simple and mixed ketones of the fatty acid series.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)