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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.), obsolete Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid formerly supposed to be the acid of œnanthylic ether, but now known to be a mixture of higher acids, especially capric acid.

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