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aldehyd

aldehyd is the archaic form of aldehyde.

Meaning of aldehyde

Noun

aldehyde (plural aldehydes)

  1. Any of a large class of reactive organic compounds (R·CHO) having a carbonyl functional group attached to one hydrocarbon radical and a hydrogen atom.
    • The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 180

Forms of aldehyd

pluralaldehyds

Questions about aldehyd

What is aldehyd the archaic form of?
Aldehyd is the archaic form of aldehyde.

Words near aldehyd in the dictionary

  1. Aldebaranian
  2. Aldebaranians
  3. aldebaranium
  4. Aldeburgh
  5. Aldeby
  6. aldehyd
  7. aldehyde
  8. aldehyde oxidase
  9. aldehyde oxidases
  10. aldehydes
  11. aldehydic

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