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WOOD SPIRIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood spirit mean? 

WOOD SPIRIT (noun)
  The noun WOOD SPIRIT 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 alcoholplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WOOD SPIRIT (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 spirit" 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 spirit"):

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


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