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organophorous

organophorous is the misspelling of organophosphorus.

Meaning of organophosphorus

Adjective

organophosphorus (not comparable)

  1. describing any of a series of derivatives of phosphorus that have at least one alkyl or aryl group, especially one containing at least one carbon-phosphorus bond

Questions about organophorous

What is organophorous the misspelling of?
Organophorous is the misspelling of organophosphorus.

Words near organophorous in the dictionary

  1. organophilicity
  2. organophilize
  3. organophilized
  4. organophilizes
  5. organophilizing
  6. organophorous
  7. organophosphatase
  8. organophosphatases
  9. organophosphate
  10. organophosphates
  11. organophosphatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: organophorous (page history and authors); organophosphorus (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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