ALDEHYDE GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aldehyde group mean? 

• ALDEHYDE GROUP (noun)
  The noun ALDEHYDE GROUP has 1 sense:

1. the chemical group -CHO

  Familiarity information: ALDEHYDE GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALDEHYDE GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chemical group -CHO

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

aldehyde group; aldehyde radical

Hypernyms ("aldehyde group" is a kind of...):

chemical group; group; radical ((chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule)

 Context examples 

A hexose with an aldehyde group; in which each of the 5 remaining carbons other than the aldehyde group has one hydroxyl group in the R,S,R, and R configuration counting from the first hydroxyl containing carbon next to the aldehyde in the straight chain (Fisher) projection; otherwise all carbons have exclusively hydrogens.

(Glucose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)