1. any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; - Example: "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group" [syn: acyl, acyl group]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
acyl group
n 1: any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic
group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
[syn: acyl, acyl group]