Word.ws English Dictionary

norbornene

norbornene noun: the polycyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene derived from norbornane.

Noun

norbornene (countable and uncountable, plural norbornenes)

  1. the polycyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene derived from norbornane
    Synonyms:
    norbornylene, norcamphene

Synonyms of norbornene

  • norbornylene
  • norcamphene

Forms of norbornene

pluralnorbornenes

Words formed from norbornene

Questions about norbornene

What does norbornene mean?
Norbornene means the polycyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene derived from norbornane.
What part of speech is norbornene?
Norbornene is a noun.
What is the plural of norbornene?
The plural of norbornene is norbornenes.

Words near norbornene in the dictionary

  1. norbornadienes
  2. norbornadienyl
  3. norbornane
  4. norbornanes
  5. Norborne
  6. norbornene
  7. norbornenes
  8. norbornenyl
  9. norbornenyls
  10. norbornone
  11. norbornones

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: norbornene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “norbornene.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/norbornene. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.