Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having five cycles: said of flowers in which the floral organs are in five cycles or whorls. Compare
monocyclic , bicyclic, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry having five
rings , especially five fused rings as in manytriterpenoids
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These products are: two saturated chains aliphatic hydrocarbons (C33H68 and C35H72), saccharose, two pentacyclic triterpenes of the ursane group (alpha-amyrine, urs-12-ene-3-one), a new polymethoxy flavonoid
Chapter 12 1991
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Platensimycin contains a pentacyclic motif with a cyclic ether ring, whereas platencin contains a unique tetracyclic motif without the ether ring
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alistair K. Brown et al. 2009
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