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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In organic chemistry, the term applied to the univalent radical C18H29, derived from sycoceryl alcohol or related compounds.

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

  • noun (Chem.) A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.

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  • noun chemistry A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek a fig + wax + -yl.

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