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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10, found in the needles of Sequoia Washingtoniana of California.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California “big tree” (
Sequoia gigantea ).
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- noun organic chemistry A
hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained from theneedles of the Sequoia gigantea.
Etymologies
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sequoia + -ene
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