wood vinegar

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   a red-brown liquid formed in distillation of wood which contains acetic acid, methanol, acetone, wood oils, and tars

   Synonymspyroligneous acid

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Questions about wood vinegar

What does wood vinegar mean?

wood vinegar means "a red-brown liquid formed in distillation of wood which contains acetic acid, methanol, acetone, wood oils, and tars".

What is another word for wood vinegar?

Close synonyms include pyroligneous 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 wood vinegar a common word?

wood vinegar 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.