2-hydroxybenzoic acid

1. 1.

   a white crystalline substance with a bitter aftertaste; used as a fungicide or in making aspirin or dyes or perfumes

   Synonymssalicylic acid

   Broaderhydroxy acid

Questions about 2-hydroxybenzoic acid

What does 2-hydroxybenzoic acid mean?

2-hydroxybenzoic acid means "a white crystalline substance with a bitter aftertaste; used as a fungicide or in making aspirin or dyes or perfumes".

What is another word for 2-hydroxybenzoic acid?

Close synonyms include salicylic acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is 2-hydroxybenzoic acid a common word?

2-hydroxybenzoic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.