ALDEHYDE

• ALDEHYDE (noun)
  The noun ALDEHYDE has 1 sense:

1. any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids

  Familiarity information: ALDEHYDE used as a noun is very rare.

• ALDEHYDE (noun)

Meaning:

Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("aldehyde" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aldehyde"):

ethanal trimer; paraldehyde (a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent)

acetaldehyde; ethanal (a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs)

formaldehyde; methanal (a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol)

furfural; furfuraldehyde (a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corn cobs; used in making furan and as a solvent)

glyceraldehyde; glyceric aldehyde (a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars)

propanal; propionaldehyde (a colorless liquid aldehyde)

acrolein; propenal (a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene)