Any hydrocarbon consisting of a central carbon atom connected with single bonds to four other carbon atoms each of which is connected to two of the others by a chain of carbon atoms; any derivative of such a compound.
Origin
Latin fenestra ("window") -ane, from the apparent similarity of the structure to a windowpane.
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