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Forms adjectives relating to places and nouns for their inhabitants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme, not-comparable
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Forms adjectives and nouns denoting religious groups from personal names.
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Usage: morpheme, not-comparable
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An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond; an alkene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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An aromatic hydrocarbon based on benzene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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A polymer derived from an alkene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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A single-atom thick two-dimensional layer of atoms.
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Usage: morpheme
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History
Borrowed from Latin -ēnus, from Ancient Greek -ηνός (-ēnós), forming adjectives from place names.
Borrowed from French -ène, chosen by French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas to avoid confusion with chemicals in -ine.
Derived from graphene, expressing its monolayer characteristic.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
