ALLYL ALCOHOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allyl alcohol mean? 

• ALLYL ALCOHOL (noun)
  The noun ALLYL ALCOHOL has 1 sense:

1. an unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals

  Familiarity information: ALLYL ALCOHOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLYL ALCOHOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

allyl alcohol; propenyl alcohol

Hypernyms ("allyl alcohol" is a kind of...):

alcohol (any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation)

Holonyms ("allyl alcohol" is a substance of...):

methanol; methyl alcohol; wood alcohol; wood spirit (a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol)