elaeoptene

• elaoptene
• eleoptene

From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

elaeoptene (usually uncountable, plural elaeoptenes)

1. (obsolete, chemistry) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substances, such as rose oil.

• stearoptene (the more solid parts)

• “elaeoptene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.