English edit

Etymology edit

hydro- +‎ carburet

Noun edit

hydrocarburet (plural hydrocarburets)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) Carburetted hydrogen.
  2. (chemistry, obsolete) A hydrocarbon.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 hydrocarburet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)