aldehyde
any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids • Hypernyms: organic compound • Hyponyms: paraldehyde, ethanal trimer, acetaldehyde, ethanal, formaldehyde, methanal, furfural, furfuraldehyde, glyceraldehyde, glyceric aldehyde, propanal, propionaldehyde, propenal, acrolein
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