agene

1. 1.

   a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour

   Synonymsnitrogen trichloride

   Broadertrichloride

   trade name

Other forms of agene

plural

agenes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agene

What does agene mean?

agene means "a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour".

How many syllables are in agene?

agene has 2 syllables: a-gene. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for agene?

Close synonyms include nitrogen trichloride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agene a common word?

agene is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.