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-enes

UK/-iːnz/US/-inz/

-enes is the plural of -ene.

Meaning of -ene

Suffix (1)

-ene (adjective-forming suffix, not comparable)

  1. Forms adjectives relating to places and nouns for their inhabitants.
    • Cairo + -ene → Cairene
  2. Forms adjectives and nouns denoting religious groups from personal names.
    • Rogers + -ene → Rogerene

Suffix (2)

-ene (noun-forming suffix, plural -enes)

  1. An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond; an alkene.
  2. An aromatic hydrocarbon based on benzene.
  3. A polymer derived from an alkene.

Suffix (3)

-ene (noun-forming suffix, plural -enes)

  1. A single-atom thick two-dimensional layer of atoms.

Words that rhyme with -enes

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Questions about -enes

What is -enes the plural of?
-enes is the plural of -ene.
How do you pronounce -enes?
-enes is pronounced /-iːnz/ (UK).

Words near -enes in the dictionary

  1. -enchyma
  2. -ency
  3. -end
  4. -ene
  5. -ened
  6. -enes
  7. -ening
  8. -ennial
  9. -ens
  10. -ensian
  11. -ent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -enes (page history and authors); -ene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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