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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Glycer

in +

-yl

(Chem.)

A compound radical,

C3H5

, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also

propenyl

glyceryl ‎(plural glyceryls)

(organic chemistry) Either of the univalent, divalent or trivalent radicals derived from glycerol by removing hydrogen atoms from one, two or three hydroxyl groups