WOOD TAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood tar mean? 

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

1. any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD TAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

natural resin (a plant exudate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood tar"):

pine tar (a dark viscous substance obtained from the destructive distillation of pine wood)

 Context examples 

Lignoceric acid occurs naturally in wood tar, various cerebrosides, and in small amount in most natural fats.

(Lignoceric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)