salol

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

   Synonymsphenyl salicylate

   Broadersalicylate

Other forms of salol

plural

salols·

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 salol

What does salol mean?

salol 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".

How many syllables are in salol?

salol has 2 syllables: sa-lol. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for salol?

Close synonyms include phenyl salicylate. 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 salol a common word?

salol is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.