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calixarene

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cal-ixarene
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of organic macrocycles containing a ring of phenol groups linked by a short bridge; they mimic some properties of enzymes, and have many other applications.

Etymology

From Latin calix (“cup, pot”) + arene.

Inflected Forms

calixarenes (plural)

Derived Forms

thiacalixarene

Questions

What does calixarene mean?
Any of a class of organic macrocycles containing a ring of phenol groups linked by a short bridge; they mimic some properties of enzymes, and have many other applications.
Where does calixarene come from?
From Latin calix (“cup, pot”) + arene.

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