Usually means: Aromatic ring with one hydrogen.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenyl: Merriam-Webster
  2. phenyl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. phenyl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. phenyl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. phenyl: Wordnik
  6. phenyl: Wiktionary
  7. phenyl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. phenyl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. phenyl: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. phenyl: Dictionary.com
  11. Phenyl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Phenyl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. phenyl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. phenyl: FreeDictionary.org
  15. phenyl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Phenyl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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  1. phenyl: Financial dictionary

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  1. phenyl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenyl: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. phenyl: Medical dictionary

(Note: See phenylic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (phenyl)

noun:  (organic chemistry) A univalent hydrocarbon radical, C₆Hâ‚… (benzene minus one hydrogen atom), and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.

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