longifolene
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English
Etymology
From longifolia + -ene, after the pine species Pinus longifolia (an obsolete name for Pinus roxburghii Sarg.).
Noun
longifolene (uncountable)
- A naturally-occurring oily liquid hydrocarbon found primarily in the high-boiling fraction of certain pine resins.
- 2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the High Yielding of Oleoresin in Secondary Xylem of Masson Pine ( Pinus massoniana Lamb) by Transcriptomic Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, :
- Among sesquiterpenes, the most abundant compounds are longifolene and caryophyllene, and the sum of them reaches up to 82% of sesquiterpenes.