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organic compound

organic compound noun: any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.

Noun

organic compound (plural organic compounds)

  1. Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.
    • Meteorites contain a wide range of organic compounds.

organic compound meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Tagalog and Malay

organic compound in Tamil

கரிமச் சேர்மங்கள், கரிமக் கூட்டுப்பொருள்

organic compound in Malayalam

carbon containing covalent compound
കാർബണിക സംയുക്തം kāṟbaṇika saṁyuktaṁ

organic compound in Tagalog

carbon containing covalent compound
haying balangkap

organic compound in Malay

carbon containing covalent compound
sebatian organik

Antonyms of organic compound

Forms of organic compound

pluralorganic compounds

Origin of organic compound

Not only are organic compounds essential to living organisms, but the common belief until the 19th century was that only living organisms could produce them, whence the name. When it was shown in the early 1800s that they could also be produced in the laboratory, the old name was kept.

Questions about organic compound

What does organic compound mean?
Organic compound means any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.
What is organic compound in Tamil?
Organic compound in Tamil is கரிமச் சேர்மங்கள், கரிமக் கூட்டுப்பொருள். See Organic compound meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is organic compound?
Organic compound is a noun.
What is the plural of organic compound?
The plural of organic compound is organic compounds.

Words near organic compound in the dictionary

  1. organic brain syndrome
  2. organic brain syndromes
  3. organic chemist
  4. organic chemistry
  5. organic chemists
  6. organic compound
  7. organic compounds
  8. organic defect
  9. organic defects
  10. organic dust toxic syndrome
  11. organic electroluminescent display

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Adapted from Wiktionary: organic compound (page history and authors); organic compound (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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