Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pentamethylene

Pentamethylene , noun

[Penta- + methylene.]

(Chemistry) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Compare Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.