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longifolene

longifolene noun: a naturally-occurring oily liquid hydrocarbon found primarily in the high-boiling fraction of certain pine resins.

Noun

longifolene (uncountable)

  1. A naturally-occurring oily liquid hydrocarbon found primarily in the high-boiling fraction of certain pine resins.
    • Among sesquiterpenes, the most abundant compounds are longifolene and caryophyllene, and the sum of them reaches up to 82% of sesquiterpenes.2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the High Yielding of Oleoresin in Secondary Xylem of Masson Pine ( Pinus massoniana Lamb) by Transcriptomic...

Origin of longifolene

From Latin longifolia + -ene, after the pine species Pinus longifolia (an obsolete name for Pinus roxburghii Sarg.).

Words formed from longifolene

Questions about longifolene

What does longifolene mean?
Longifolene means a naturally-occurring oily liquid hydrocarbon found primarily in the high-boiling fraction of certain pine resins.
What part of speech is longifolene?
Longifolene is a noun.

Words near longifolene in the dictionary

  1. longidomic
  2. longidorid
  3. longidorids
  4. longie
  5. longies
  6. longifolene
  7. longikaurin
  8. longilabrous
  9. longilateral
  10. longilobine
  11. longiloquence

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