flavone
/ˈfleɪvəʊn/noun
flavone is a noun meaning “Any of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-V-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flavone is flavones.
What does flavone mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flavone?
- /ˈfleɪvəʊn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flavone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flavone
- flavones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flavone?
Flavone appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flavone come from?
From Latin flāvus (“yellow”) + -one, as many are yellow in nature.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).