Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oily, unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Same as
valerylene .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of several isomeric
acetylenes having fivecarbon atoms and onetriple bond
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Examples
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Her jaws closed on the twisting, ser-pentine neck, fangs stabbing through leathery scales and veins and threatening to crush her foe's windpipe.
The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993
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O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus, forget that thou art Jove the king of gods: and Mercury, loose all the Ser-pentine craft of thy Caduceus, if yee take not that little little lesse then little witte from them that they have: which short-armd Ignorance it selfe knowes is so aboun-dant scarce, it will not in circumuention deliver a flie from
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When it is Dry Pass over it with some Gum Mastick Dissolved in Tur - pentine, which I shall let Dry, than finish my Picture with Glasing boath in the lights and shades.
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Chap.III. of the Indians in Neiv-England, 153 pentine of the pine tree.
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From the south-east boundary, to about twenty or twenty - five miles north-west, is included all the primitive of the state, which is light and indifferent, where thegneiss, granite or ser - pentine prevails; the limestone or hornblende rocks may form a tolerable soil, as the country, though broken, is not hilly, and has nothing that can be called a mountain.
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