aromatic compound

1. 1.

   a hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds

   Broaderhydrocarbon

Questions about aromatic compound

What does aromatic compound mean?

aromatic compound means "a hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds".

Is aromatic compound a common word?

aromatic compound 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.