Vocabulary : Amygdaline to Amylic

Amygdaline : Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.
Amygdaloid : A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava. ;; Alt. of Amygdaloidal
Amygdaloidal : Almond-shaped. ;; Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid.
Amyl : A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
Amyl alcohol : Any of eight isomeric liquid compounds, C5H11OH; ordinarily, a mixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

Amyl nitrite : A yellowish oily volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.
Amylaceous : Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
Amylate : A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.
Amylene : One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.
Amylic : Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.

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