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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("organic chemistry" is a kind of...):
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Domain category:
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organic chemistry"):
biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)
phytochemistry (the branch of organic chemistry dealing with the chemistry of plants)
