wood alcohol

See also: wood-alcohol

English

Etymology

Originally manufactured by the destructive distillation of wood.

Noun

wood alcohol (countable and uncountable, plural wood alcohols)

  1. (organic chemistry) The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.
    Synonym: wood spirit

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