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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A liquid, C8H9(OH) or 2-ethylphenol, found in creosote from wood-tar and also made synthetically, as by the distillation of barium phloretate with lime. It boils at 206.5–207.5° C.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.

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  • noun chemistry A phenol that is metameric with xylenol, obtained by distillation of certain salts of phloretic acid.

Etymologies

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phloretic +‎ --ol

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