allyl alcohol

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

   Synonymspropenyl alcohol

   Broaderalcohol

Questions about allyl alcohol

What does allyl alcohol mean?

allyl alcohol means "an unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals".

What is another word for allyl alcohol?

Close synonyms include propenyl alcohol. 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 allyl alcohol a common word?

allyl alcohol 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.