noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   a univalent functional group, -CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom joined with a triple bond; organic compounds containing a cyano group are nitriles especially, in-compounds

Related phrases

cyanoformic acidfunctional grouptriple bond

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.