Definitions for Pyrene

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Pyrene py·rene

Spelling: [pahy-reen, pahy-reen]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ rin, paɪˈrin/

Pyrene is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in Pyrene (eenpry).

Definitions for Pyrene

noun

1. a putamen or stone, especially when there are several in a single fruit; a nutlet.
2. a polycyclic, aromatic crystalline hydrocarbon, C 16 H 10 , consisting of four fused benzene rings, found in coal tar and believed to be carcinogenic.

Origin of Pyrene

1830-40; New Latin pȳrēna Greek pȳrḗn fruit stone

Examples for Pyrene

We read of a pyrene, which was a fountain of another nature; yet of the same etymology, however differently expressed.

Farther on the hero came upon another monster in his way, Cycnus, the son of Mars and pyrene.

Farther on the hero came upon another monster in his way—Cycnus, the son of Mars and pyrene.

Have pyrene convenient—but not too convenient to spoil the fun.

pyrene, Pyrena, a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe.

pyrene, a crystalline substance obtained from coal tar, fats, &c.

pyrene, a fountain in Corinth, consecrated also to the Muses.

Then the pyrene extinguisher fell out, and I had to rescue it from under the nose of a tram.