carboxyl

[ kahr-bok-sil ]

adjective

1. containing the carboxyl group.

carboxyl

/ kär-bŏk′səl /

1. The radical COOH, characteristic of all carboxylic acids.

Other Words From

• carbox·ylic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of carboxyl¹

First recorded in 1865–70; carb- + ox(ygen) + -yl

Example Sentences

We then sent these carbon atoms — from a very metabolically active part of the amino acid called the carboxyl group — through a machine called a mass spectrometer to read their isotope fingerprints.

From Salon

The researchers patterned the graphene with “functional groups”—chemical studs such as carboxyl or amine groups.

From Science Magazine

An unexpected enzymatic carboxyl group migration leads to an antibiotic precursor.

From Science Magazine

In a mouse model of depigmentation, DNA vaccination with a melanocyte antigen and the carboxyl terminus of HSP70i was sufficient to drive autoimmunity.

From Science Magazine

Intimately connected with this is the fact that these fibres also exhibit partly basic and partly acid characters, due to the presence of carboxyl and amido groups.

From Project Gutenberg