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Any of a very large class of naturally occurring and synthetic organic compounds formally derived from the hydrocarbon isoprene; they include many volatile compounds used in perfume and food flavours, turpentine, the steroids, the carotene pigments and rubber.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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an unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hydrocarbon
Narrower terms: limonene
From German Terpen, coined by August Kekulé in 1866 in analogy to German Terpentin, from Latin terebinthina. Piecewise doublet of terpin; compare also terebinth and turpentine.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
terpè
— organic compound
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Chinese Cantonese:
萜
(tip3)
— organic compound
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Chinese Mandarin:
萜
(tiē)
— organic compound
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Chinese Mandarin:
萜烯
(tiēxī)
— organic compound
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Esperanto:
terpeno
— organic compound
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Finnish:
terpeeni
— organic compound
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German:
Terpen
— organic compound
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Hungarian:
terpén
— organic compound
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Japanese:
テルペン
(terupen)
— organic compound
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Kazakh:
терпен
(terpen)
— organic compound
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Korean:
텔펜
(telpen)
— organic compound
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Spanish:
terpeno
— organic compound
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Swedish:
terpen
— organic compound
