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

  • noun A colorless crystalline dicarboxylic acid, C8H14O4, used in the manufacture of plastics.

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  • noun chemistry an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, (CH2)6(COOH)2, obtained from cork; used in the manufacture of plastics

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  • noun a dicarboxylic acid found in cork

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French subérique, from Latin sūber, cork.]

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