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flavan

flavan noun: any of a class of benzopyran derivatives, found in plants, that use the 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromene skeleton.

Noun

flavan (plural flavans)

  1. Any of a class of benzopyran derivatives, found in plants, that use the 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromene skeleton

Forms of flavan

pluralflavans

Words formed from flavan

Questions about flavan

What does flavan mean?
Flavan means any of a class of benzopyran derivatives, found in plants, that use the 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromene skeleton.
What part of speech is flavan?
Flavan is a noun.
What is the plural of flavan?
The plural of flavan is flavans.

Words near flavan in the dictionary

  1. flav
  2. flava
  3. flavadine
  4. flavagline
  5. flavaglines
  6. flavan
  7. flavandiol
  8. flavandiols
  9. flavane
  10. flavanes
  11. flavanic

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