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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene;
[syn: propenal, acrolein]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Acrolein \A*cro"le*in\, n. [L. acer sharp + ol[=e]re to smell.] (Chem.) A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. --Watts. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acrolein n 1: a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene [syn: propenal, acrolein]