English
heterocycloalkane
From hetero- + cycloalkane.
A compound of hetero- + cycloalkane
Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’
English hetero-
Today it means
noun Any saturated heterocycle formally derived from a cycloalkane by replacing one or more carbon atoms with a heteroatom
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Etymograph / heterocycloalkane