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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to or being a hydrocarbon unit, C7H15, that can occur as a substituent in an organic compound or as an ion or radical.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The hypothetical radical (C7H15) of heptylic alcohol and its derivatives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry Either of many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C7H15, formally derived from heptane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.

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