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-ole

suffix

Etymology

Partly arbitrary variant of -ol (now used to distinguish between specific cases) and partly from Latin oleum (“oil”).

  1. derived from oleum

Definitions

  1. in the Hantzsch–Widman nomenclature for naming heterocycles, denotes an unsaturated…

    in the Hantzsch–Widman nomenclature for naming heterocycles, denotes an unsaturated five-membered ring system with nitrogen

  2. A diminutive suffix referring to small parts of organisms or their cells.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ole. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA