aromatic hydrocarbon

1. 1.

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

   Broaderhydrocarbon

   Narrowerbenzene

Questions about aromatic hydrocarbon

What does aromatic hydrocarbon mean?

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

Is aromatic hydrocarbon a common word?

aromatic hydrocarbon 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.