English Explanatory Dictionary

cavitand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.

Word forms

cavitand cavitands

Etymology

From cavity + -and.

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