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parent compound

noun

Etymology

From parent + compound.

  1. derived from com-
  2. derived from componō
  3. derived from componre
  4. derived from compounen
  5. compounded as parent compound — “parent + compound”

Definitions

  1. The simplest member of a class of compounds, from which the others are formally obtained…

    The simplest member of a class of compounds, from which the others are formally obtained by substituting radicals for hydrogen atoms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parent compound. 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