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1. (n.) quinone
a yellow, crystalline, cyclic compound, C
2. quinone
any of a class of compounds of this type.
Etymology: (1850–55; quin(ic acid) a compound found in cinchona bark and the leaves of other plants(
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1. (noun) quinone, benzoquinone
any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes
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1. (noun) quinone
a crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type
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