Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Quartenylic

Quartenylic , adjective

[Quartene + -yl + -ic.]

(Chemistry) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.