ethanol
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1. the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | alcohol, |
| definition | : | any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation (noun.substance) |
| hypernym | : | plant product, |
| definition | : | a product made from plant material (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | spirits of wine, |
| definition | : | rectified ethyl alcohol (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | absolute alcohol, |
| definition | : | pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than 1% water) (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | denatured alcohol, |
| definition | : | ethyl alcohol that is unfit for drinking but is still useful for other purposes (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | ethyl alcohol, neutral spirits, |
| definition | : | nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs (noun.food) |
| substance meronym | : | gasohol, |
| definition | : | a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn (noun.substance) |
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