-ONIC


Meaning of -ONIC in English

a suffix used in forming names of acids, esp. carboxylic acids obtained by oxidation of aldoses: gluconic acid.

[ perh. generalized from lactonic acid as trans. of G Lactonsäure; see LACTOSE, -ONE, -IC ]

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