neo-
/ni:әj/
📖 中文释义
- pref. 新
- [医] 新
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry
- designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which,
- when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which
- at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon
- atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the
- neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.