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GASOHOL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gasohol mean?
• GASOHOL (noun)
The noun GASOHOL has 1 sense:
1. a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn
Familiarity information: GASOHOL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("gasohol" is a kind of...):
fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)
hydrocarbon (an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen)
Meronyms (substance of "gasohol"):
gas; gasolene; gasoline; petrol (a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines)
ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol (the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline)
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