benzoic acid

1. 1.

   a white crystalline solid occurring in many resins

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about benzoic acid

What does benzoic acid mean?

benzoic acid means "a white crystalline solid occurring in many resins".

Is benzoic acid a common word?

benzoic 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.