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-uret

 
a suffix used in chemical terminology, identical in sense with -ide, which has now generally replaced it: carburet (now carbide); phosphuret (now phosphide).
Origin:
< NL -urētum, -ōrētum, of uncert. orig.
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-uret

-u*ret\ A suffix with the same meaning as -ide. See -ide. [Obs.]

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