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AMIDE

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

1. any organic compound containing the group -CONH2

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

• AMIDE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("amide" 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 "amide"):

acetamide; ethanamide (a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds)

acrylamide (a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals)

peptide (amide combining the amino group of one amino acid with the carboxyl group of another; usually obtained by partial hydrolysis of protein)

propanamide; proprionamide (the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2))

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Definition of proprionamide
Definition of propanamide
Definition of ethanamide
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