hydroxybenzene

1. 1.

   a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally

   Synonymscarbolic acidphenoloxybenzenephenylic acid

   Broaderacidsolvent

Other forms of hydroxybenzene

plural

hydroxybenzenes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hydroxybenzene

What does hydroxybenzene mean?

hydroxybenzene means "a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally".

How many syllables are in hydroxybenzene?

hydroxybenzene has 5 syllables: hy-drox-y-ben-zene. The stress falls on "y".

What is another word for hydroxybenzene?

Close synonyms include carbolic acid, phenol, oxybenzene, phenylic 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 hydroxybenzene a common word?

hydroxybenzene 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.