amyl alcohol

1. 1.

   a mixture of 2 or more isomeric alcohols; used as a solvent and in organic synthesis

   Broaderalcohol

Questions about amyl alcohol

What does amyl alcohol mean?

amyl alcohol means "a mixture of 2 or more isomeric alcohols; used as a solvent and in organic synthesis".

Is amyl alcohol a common word?

amyl 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.