organic compound
organic compound
compound derived from living material
Organic compound
organic compound
Noun
1. any compound of carbon and another element or a radical
(hypernym) compound, chemical compound
(hyponym) aldehyde
Organic compound
Molecule that contains atoms of the element carbon, usually combined with itself and with atoms of one or more other element such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, or fluorine. See
inorganic compound.
organic (organic compound)
Compare with
inorganic compound .Compounds that contain carbon chemically bound to hydrogen. They often contain other elements (particularly O, N, halogens, or S). Organic compounds were once thought to be produced only by living things. We now know that any organic compound can be synthesized in the laboratory (although this can be extremely difficult in practice!)
Organic chemistry is concerned with the compounds of carbon. Biochemistry is concerned with compounds of carbon that crawl. -Mike Adams