heptacosadiene
Meanings
noun
- Any of very many isomeric dialkenes having twenty-seven carbon atoms and two double bonds, but especially (Z,Z) 7,11-heptacosadiene which is a courtship pheromone in fruit flies
Word forms
Etymology
From hepta- + -cosa- + di- + -ene.
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