ALIPHATIC COMPOUND

 Dictionary entry overview: What does aliphatic compound mean? 

• ALIPHATIC COMPOUND (noun)
  The noun ALIPHATIC COMPOUND has 1 sense:

1. organic compound that is an alkane or alkene or alkyne or their derivative

  Familiarity information: ALIPHATIC COMPOUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALIPHATIC COMPOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organic compound that is an alkane or alkene or alkyne or their derivative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("aliphatic compound" 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 "aliphatic compound"):

acetylene; alkyne; ethyne (a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis)

alicyclic compound (an aliphatic compound that contains a ring of atoms)

alkene; olefin; olefine (any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon)

alkane; alkane series; methane series; paraffin; paraffin series (a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2))