| Definitions | xylene
noun
- (chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, di-methyl-benzene, found in coal and wood tar.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 262:
- :... proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, in unventilated rooms, and so on ....
Translations: Etymology: From Ancient Greek (polytonic, ) "wood" + -ene.
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