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muscone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mus-cone
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A macrocyclic ketone, (R)-3-methylcyclopentadecanone, that is the main constituent of the odour of musk.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From musk + -one.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

muscones (plural)

Questions

What does muscone mean?
A macrocyclic ketone, (R)-3-methylcyclopentadecanone, that is the main constituent of the odour of musk.
Where does muscone come from?
From musk + -one.

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