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xylenes

xylenes is the plural of xylene.

Meaning of xylene

Noun

xylene (countable and uncountable, plural xylenes)

  1. Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.
    • […] proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, xylene in unventilated rooms, and so on […]2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 262
    Synonyms:
    dimethylbenzene

Phrases with xylenes

Questions about xylenes

What is xylenes the plural of?
Xylenes is the plural of xylene.

Words near xylenes in the dictionary

  1. xylemlike
  2. xylems
  3. xylene
  4. xylene musk
  5. xylene musks
  6. xylenes
  7. xylenol
  8. xylenol orange
  9. xylenolphthalein
  10. xylenols
  11. xylenyl

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