terpene

See also: terpène

English

Etymology

From German Terpen, coined by August Kekulé in 1866 in analogy to German Terpentin, from Latin terebinthina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː(ɹ)piːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

terpene (plural terpenes)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a very large class of naturally occurring and synthetic organic compounds formally derived from the hydrocarbon isoprene; they include many volatile compounds used in perfume and food flavours, turpentine, the steroids, the carotene pigments and rubber.
   • 2007, Shibu Jose, Eric J. Jokela, Deborah L. Miller, editors, The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology, Silviculture, and Restoration, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43:

     Naval stores production is based upon exploiting the terpene chemical defense system of the pine tree, which protects against wood-decaying fungi and insect pests such as bark beetles (Dendroctonus Ips sp.). […] Pine oleoresin is a complex mixture of about 30 to 50 different terpene molecules, comprised chiefly of diterpene resin acids and monoterpene essential oils, which impart different physical and biotic properties (Zinkel and Russell 1989).

Usage notes

Terpenes are properly only hydrocarbons. Oxygenated derivatives are terpenoids.

Hypernyms

• hydrocarbon

Hyponyms

• diterpene
• monoterpene
• polyterpene
• sesquiterpene
• sesterterpene
• tetraterpene
• triterpene

Derived terms

• pine terpene

 

Related terms

• terpane
• terpenoid
• terpeneless

Translations

organic compound

• Catalan: terpè m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 萜 (tip³)

  Mandarin: 萜 (zh) (tiē), 萜烯 (tiēxī)

• Esperanto: terpeno
• Finnish: terpeeni (fi)
• German: Terpen (de) n
• Hungarian: terpén (hu)
• Japanese: テルペン (terupen)
• Kazakh: терпен (terpen)
• Korean: 텔펜 (telpen)
• Spanish: terpeno m

Anagrams

• pre-teen, preteen

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /terˈpɛ.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛne
• Hyphenation: ter‧pè‧ne

Noun

terpene m (plural terpeni)

1. terpene

Derived terms

Derived terms

• diterpene
• emiterpene
• monoterpene
• politerpene
• sesquiterpene
• sesterpene
• triterpene

Related terms

• terpenico
• terpino

Anagrams

• perente, repente