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butenolides

butenolides is the plural of butenolide.

Meaning of butenolide

Noun

butenolide (plural butenolides)

  1. The cyclic lactone derived from 4-hydroxybut-2-enoic acid (one of the isomers of furanone); any of its derivatives

Questions about butenolides

What is butenolides the plural of?
Butenolides is the plural of butenolide.

Words near butenolides in the dictionary

  1. butenoates
  2. butenoic
  3. butenoic acid
  4. butenol
  5. butenolide
  6. butenolides
  7. butenols
  8. butenone
  9. butenoyl
  10. butenyl
  11. butenylidene

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