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Vinony

organic compound

noun

  1. chemical compound that contains carbon atoms (with a few exceptions traditionally classified as inorganic compounds)
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Not only are organic compounds essential to living organisms, but the common belief until the 19th century was that only living organisms could produce them, whence the name. When it was shown in the early 1800s that they could also be produced in the laboratory, the old name was kept.

  1. Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.

    “Meteorites contain a wide range of organic compounds.”