diureide

English

Etymology

di- +‎ ureide

Noun

diureide (plural diureides)

1. (chemistry) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals.

   Uric acid and allantoin are diureides.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “diureide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)