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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An oily liquid aldehyde, C10H16O, having a strong lemon odor, that is the major constituent of naturally derived citral, used in perfumes and flavorings.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as geraniaceous.
  • noun A colorless, oily aldehyde, (CH3)2C:CH.CH2. CH2.C(CH3):CH.CHO; one of the chief constituents of lemon-grass oil and of the oil of citrus fruits.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry One of the two isomers of citral

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[gerani(ol) + –al.]

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