| 单词 | hydnocarpic acid |
| 释义 | hydnocarpic acid in British English (ˌhɪdnəʊˈkɑːpɪk) noun a cyclic fatty acid occurring in the form of its glycerides in chaulmoogra oil. Formula: C16H28O2 Word origin C20: from Greek hudnon truffle + karpos fruit + -ichydnocarpic acid in American English (ˈhɪdnouˈkɑːrpɪk, ˌhɪd-) noun Pharmacology an acid, C16H28O2, obtained from chaulmoogra oil, and used in the treatment of leprosy Word origin [1900–05; ‹ Gk hýdno(n) truffle + karp(ós) fruit + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, cathode-ray tube, decompression, geopolitics-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)Word lists with names of acids |
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