dragonoid
/ˈdræɡənɔɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hypervalent organosilicon compound that features a five-membered coordination heterocycle incorporating a trifluorosilicon moiety (F₃Si–) and an internal Si←O coordination bond.
Example Sentences
- "In 1963 he published The Dragon Masters, set on an alien world where man's descendants wage war with an off-world race of dragonoid aliens, each side using troops of genetically engineered mutants bred from captured enemy soldiers."
- "...Joining the forces of Tigernoid and Dragonoid endangers the balance of our universe. Even if you had committed no crime, you existence violates the laws of our world."
- "The reaction of the corresponding alkoxysilanes with boron trifluoride etherate leads to (2-benzoxazolylthiomethyl) and (2-benzothiazolylthiomethyl) substituted trifluorosilanes and methyldifluorosilanes having a dragonoid chelate structure. By the hydrolysis of (2-heterylthiomethyl)trimethoxysilanes, new organosilicon sorbents, poly(2-heteryl-thiomethyl)silsesquioxanes have been synthesized."
- "In developing our research on organic hypervalent silicon compounds containing the F3SimO group included into the five-membered coordination heterocycle, which we called the dragonoids, we decided to obtain a similar organic silicon derivative of 3-hydroxy-2-methyl-4-pyrone (maltol)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdræɡənɔɪd/
- British English: /ˈdræɡᵊnˈɔɪd/