AMYL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amyl mean? 

• AMYL (noun)
  The noun AMYL has 1 sense:

1. a hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds

  Familiarity information: AMYL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMYL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("amyl" is a kind of...):

chemical group; group; radical ((chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule)

 Context examples 

Chamomile has a warm aromatic odour and a very bitter taste and contains volatile oils which are a mixture of butyl and amyl angelates and valerates.

(Chamomile, NCI Thesaurus)

I had obtained good results in such cases by the inhalation of nitrite of amyl, and the present seemed an admirable opportunity of testing its virtues.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)