phenyl salicylate

1. 1.

   a white powder with a pleasant taste and odor; used to absorb light in sun tan lotions or as a preservative or an antiseptic or a coating for pills in which the medicine is intended for enteric release

   Synonymssalol

   Broadersalicylate

Questions about phenyl salicylate

What does phenyl salicylate mean?

phenyl salicylate means "a white powder with a pleasant taste and odor; used to absorb light in sun tan lotions or as a preservative or an antiseptic or a coating for pills in which the medicine is intended for enteric release".

What is another word for phenyl salicylate?

Close synonyms include salol. 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 phenyl salicylate a common word?

phenyl salicylate 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.