Word.ws English Dictionary

pentacosanes

pentacosanes is the plural of pentacosane.

Meaning of pentacosane

Noun

pentacosane (plural pentacosanes)

  1. Any of very many isomeric forms of a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon having 25 carbon atoms, but especially n-pentacosane CH₃(CH₂)₂₃CH₃ that is found in beeswax

Questions about pentacosanes

What is pentacosanes the plural of?
Pentacosanes is the plural of pentacosane.

Words near pentacosanes in the dictionary

  1. pentacoordination
  2. pentacopper
  3. pentacosadiene
  4. pentacosadienes
  5. pentacosane
  6. pentacosanes
  7. pentacosanoic
  8. pentacosanoic acid
  9. pentacosanoyl
  10. pentacosene
  11. pentacosenes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pentacosanes (page history and authors); pentacosane (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: “pentacosanes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pentacosanes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.