Definitions for pyrenes

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pyrenes py·rene

Spelling: [pahy-reen, pahy-reen]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ rin, paɪˈrin/

Pyrenes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in pyrenes (eenprsy).

Definitions for pyrenes

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 pyrenes

1830-40; New Latin pȳrēna Greek pȳrḗn fruit stone

Examples for pyrenes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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