Usually means: Aromatic hydrocarbon used in mothballs.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. naphthalene: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. naphthalene: Merriam-Webster
  3. naphthalene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. naphthalene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. naphthalene: Collins English Dictionary
  6. naphthalene: Vocabulary.com
  7. Naphthalene, naphthalene: Wordnik
  8. naphthalene: Wiktionary
  9. naphthalene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. naphthalene (naphthaline or naphthalin): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. naphthalene: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. naphthalene: Dictionary.com
  13. Naphthalene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Naphthalene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. naphthalene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. naphthalene: Rhymezone
  17. Naphthalene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. naphthalene: FreeDictionary.org
  19. naphthalene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. naphthalene: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. naphthalene: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. naphthalene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. naphthalene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. naphthalene: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

(Note: See naphthalenes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A white crystalline hydrocarbon manufactured from coal tar; used in mothballs.
noun:  (organic chemistry) An aromatic bicyclic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₈; an acene containing two fused benzene rings.

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