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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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xylene

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Noun
 : 
xy=lene

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun xylene has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

xylenen. [Gr. xy`lon wood.].
     Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.  [1913 Webster]
    " Each of these xylenes is the nucleus and prototype of a distinct series of compounds."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

xylene, n. Chem. one of three isomeric hydrocarbons formed from benzene by the substitution of two methyl groups, obtained from wood etc.

Etymology
formed as XYLEM + -ENE
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