Pyrene

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The stone of certain fruits, such as the cherry.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar
  • n. the stone of a drupe
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C16H10.
  • n. Same as pyrena.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A stone or putamen, properly when there are several in a single fruit, as in the huckleberry and other berry-like drupes, and in some pomes with a stony endocarp, as those of the hawthorn and medlar; a nutlet. Also ossiculus.
  • n. A hydrocarbon (C15H12) obtained from coaltar.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar
  • n. the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hydrocarbon    nutlet   
    Cross Reference
    pyrene-oil   
    Variant
    pyrena   
    Form
    pyrenic    polypyrene   
     
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