pyrogallic acid

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   a toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer

   Synonymspyrogallol

   Broaderphenol

Questions about pyrogallic acid

What does pyrogallic acid mean?

pyrogallic acid means "a toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer".

What is another word for pyrogallic acid?

Close synonyms include pyrogallol. 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 pyrogallic acid a common word?

pyrogallic 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.