carbamate

[kahr-buh-meyt, kahr-bam-eyt]

car·ba·mate

[kahr-buh-meyt, kahr-bam-eyt]
noun
a salt or ester of carbamic acid.

Origin:
1860–65; carbam(ic) + -ate2
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To carbamate

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Carbamate is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
Collins
World English Dictionary
carbamate (ˈkɑːbəˌmeɪt)
 
n
a salt or ester of carbamic acid. The salts contain the monovalent ion NH2COO--, and the esters contain the group NH2COO--

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary

carbamate car·ba·mate (kär'bə-māt', kär-bām'āt')
n.
A salt or ester of carbamic acid.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Science Dictionary
carbamate   (kär'bə-māt', kär-bām'āt')  Pronunciation Key 
A salt or ester containing the radical NH2COO. Carbamates are often used as insecticides.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT