Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perillaldehyde

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-il-lalde-hyde
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Molecular dynamics simulations have shown that essential oil constituents like perillaldehyde or perillyl alcohol carrying more hydrophilic groups require more energy to traverse the membrane and have a 700-fold slower flip-flop rate than the nonpolar constituent limonene (Witzke et al., 2010)."

Etymology

Blend of perilla + aldehyde.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does perillaldehyde mean?: perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.
Where does perillaldehyde come from?: Blend of perilla + aldehyde.

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