Trikosane

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trikosane \Tri"ko*sane\, n. [Pref. tri- + Gr. ? twenty.] (Chem.)
     A hydrocarbon, {C23H48}, of the methane series, resembling
     paraffin; -- so called because it has twenty-three atoms of
     carbon in the molecule.
     [1913 Webster]