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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air;
[syn: cacodyl, tetramethyldiarsine]

2. the univalent group derived from arsine;
[syn: cacodyl, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical, arsenic group]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cacodyl \Cac"o*dyl\, n. [Gr. ??????? ill-smelling (kako`s bad + ????? to smell) + -yl.] (Chem.) Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cacodyl n 1: a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air [syn: cacodyl, tetramethyldiarsine] 2: the univalent group derived from arsine [syn: cacodyl, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical, arsenic group]