urea

名词 n.
/jʊˈɹiːə/|/ˈjʊəɹɪə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine. uncountable
    — Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia. […] Over the past week, the price of urea sold in Egypt, a market that economists track closely, climbed more than 35 percent.
  2. Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄). countable

词形变化

ureas plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-der.
Ancient Greek οὐρέω (ouréō)
Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron)der.
French uréeder.
New Latinder.
English urea
From New Latin, from French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
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