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methylene

meth.y.lene \'meth-*-.le-n\ n [F me`thyle'ne, fr. Gk methy wine + hyle- 
   wood - more]at MEAD : a bivalent hydrocarbon radical CH2= or -CH2- derived 
   fro m methane by removal of two hydrogen atoms