Substituent: Definition and part of speech

Substituent

  1. n. Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.

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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