Octoic: Definition and part of speech

Octoic

  1. a. Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, octane; — used specifically, to designate any one of a group of acids, the most important of which is called caprylic acid.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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