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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aliphatic \Al`i*phat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, oil, fat.] (Org. Chem.)
Of pertaining to or derived from fat; fatty; -- applied to
compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic
compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other
derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also
unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
aliphatic
adj : having carbon atoms linked in open chains
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