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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to or being a hydrocarbon unit, C3H7, that can occur as a substituent in an organic compound or as an ion or radical.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The hypothetical radical, C3H7, of propane.

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

  • noun (Chem.) The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry Either of two isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C3H7, formally derived from propane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the monovalent organic group C3H7- obtained from propane

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[prop(ane) + –yl.]

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