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Hydrocarbon vs Diterpene - What's the difference?

hydrocarbon | diterpene | Hypernyms |

Hydrocarbon is a hypernym of diterpene.


As nouns the difference between hydrocarbon and diterpene

is that hydrocarbon is (organic chemistry) a compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms while diterpene is (label) any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin a, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin.

hydrocarbon

English

(wikipedia hydrocarbon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

    • Derived terms

    * fluorochlorohydrocarbon * hydrocarbonaceous * hydrocarbonic

    Hyponyms

    * alkane * alkene * alkyne * cycloalkane * cycloalkene * arene

    See also

    * aliphatic * aromatic * petroleum

    diterpene

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin A, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin

    • Coordinate terms

    * hemiterpene * monoterpene * sesquiterpene * sesterterpene * triterpene * tetraterpene * polyterpene

    Hypernyms

    * terpene * hydrocarbon

    Hyponyms

    * abietic acid * agelasimine * andrographolide * aphidicolin * cafestol * ferruginol * forskolin * gibberellin * kahweol * labdane * lagochiline * phorbol * quassin * sclarene * stemarene * vitamin A