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Noun: pyrene
  1. A pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar
     
  2. The small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it

Derived forms: pyrenes

Type of: hydrocarbon, nutlet

Encyclopedia: Pyrene

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