WOOD ALCOHOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood alcohol mean? 

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

1. a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD ALCOHOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

methanol; methyl alcohol; wood alcohol; wood spirit

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

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

fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)

Meronyms (substance of "wood alcohol"):

allyl alcohol; propenyl alcohol (an unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals)

 Context examples 

Also called methanol and wood alcohol.

(Methyl alcohol, NCI Dictionary)

Also called methyl alcohol and wood alcohol.

(Methanol, NCI Dictionary)