'Tetrakosane' definitions:

Definition of 'Tetrakosane'

From: GCIDE
  • Tetrakosane \Tet"ra*ko*sane`\, n. [Tetra- + Gr. ? twenty.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule. [1913 Webster]