acyl

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acyl - 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]

acyl - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]