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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group;
- Example: "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
[syn: acyl, acyl group]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Acyl \Ac"yl\, n. [Acid + -yl.] (Org. Chem.) An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl. An acyl radical can be depicted as R-CO-, where -CO- is the carbonyl group, and R is the group that characterizes the acyl moiety. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acyl n 1: any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group" [syn: acyl, acyl group]