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noun a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar
noun the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it
originBorrowed from Latin Pȳrēnē, from Ancient Greek Πυρήνη (Purḗnē).
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