noun
ChemistryAny of a group of unsaturated terpenoid hydrocarbons structurally related to abietic acid.
The abietenes have structures based on a tricyclic skeleton with the formula C₁₉H₃₀.
Origin
Late 19th century (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin abiet-, abiēs fir tree + -ene.
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