FURAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furan mean? 

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

1. a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

furan; furane; furfuran

Hypernyms ("furan" 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 "furan"):

nitrofuran (derivative of furan used to inhibit bacterial growth)

 Context examples 

A natural toxic furan isolated from a fungus-infected sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Ipomeanol, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of organic phytochemicals that consists of a furan ring fused with coumarin.

(Furanocoumarin, NCI Thesaurus)

Furan is mutagenic in animals and is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.

(Furan, NCI Thesaurus)

Occurs mostly as furan and rarely as pyran or straight chain.

(Fructose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Occurs mostly as pyran (6-membered oxygen containing ring or oxane) and rarely as furan (5-membered oxygen containing ring) or straight chain.

(Glucose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A class of organic compounds possessing coumarin structure (benzopyrone) fused to the furan ring of benzofurone (a bicyclic compound which is composed of a phenyl ring fused to a 5-member furan ring that has an oxygen atom at the 1 position).

(Coumestan, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)