# metaxylene

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colourless inflammable liquid.

## Etymology
From meta- + xylene.

## Source
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