butyl alcohol

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   a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents

   Synonymsbutanol

   Broaderalcohol

Questions about butyl alcohol

What does butyl alcohol mean?

butyl alcohol means "a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents".

What is another word for butyl alcohol?

Close synonyms include butanol. 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 butyl alcohol a common word?

butyl 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.