Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.

Origin

From cavity + -and.

From cavity + -and.

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Forms

plural: cavitands
Singularcavitand
Pluralcavitands

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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