organic compound
nounEtymology Not only are organic compounds essential to living organisms, but the common belief until the 19th century was that only living organisms could produce them, whence the name. When it was shown in the early 1800s that they could also be produced in the laboratory, the old name was kept.
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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Organic chemistry, Physical sciences Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.
- Meteorites contain a wide range of organic compounds.
- Synonyms
- organic compound
- Antonyms
- inorganic compound
- Related terms
- :Category:Organic compounds, List of organic_compounds on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hypernyms
- chemical compound