English Explanatory Dictionary

-ylene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Synonym of -ene
  2. used to form the names of bivalent radicals

Word forms

-ylene

Etymology

From ethylene and amylene, where the -yl- is etymological. Sense 2 from -yl + -ene.

Synonyms

-ene
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