ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organic chemistry mean? 

• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (noun)
  The noun ORGANIC CHEMISTRY has 1 sense:

1. the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially)

  Familiarity information: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (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)

 Context examples 

Rules created by Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold and Vladimer Prelog to name stereoisomers in organic chemistry.

(Cahn-Ingold-Prelog Priority System, NCI Thesaurus)

I went up to my London rooms, where I spent seven weeks working out a few experiments in organic chemistry.

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