Polyol

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈpÉ’lɪɒl/

Origin

From - + ol + -.

Full definition of polyol

Noun

1. (organic chemistry) Any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol.
• 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 258: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.