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irone

irone noun: any of several ketones, or a mixture of such, found in orris oil (oil extracted from iris roots), used as odorants in perfumes.

Noun

irone (plural irones)

  1. Any of several ketones, or a mixture of such, found in orris oil (oil extracted from iris roots), used as odorants in perfumes.
    • As is well known, Irone is the principal odoriferous constituent of Orris Butter, the essential oil obtained from Orris Root by steam distillation.1934, Drug and Cosmetic Industry, Volume 35, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 256
    • 1951 [D. Van Nostrand], Frank C. Whitmore, Organic Chemistry, Volume One: Part I: Aliphatic Compounds, Part II: Alicyclic Compounds, 2nd Edition, 2012, Dover republication, page 565,
      The previously accepted cycloheptene structure for the irones has been shown recently to be wrong.

Forms of irone

pluralirones

Questions about irone

What does irone mean?
Irone means any of several ketones, or a mixture of such, found in orris oil (oil extracted from iris roots), used as odorants in perfumes.
What part of speech is irone?
Irone is a noun.
What is the plural of irone?
The plural of irone is irones.

Words near irone in the dictionary

  1. ironclad
  2. ironclad beetle
  3. ironclad beetles
  4. ironclads
  5. Irondequoit
  6. irone
  7. ironed
  8. ironed out
  9. ironedetate
  10. ironer
  11. ironers

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