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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Made by the destructive distillation of wood.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Generated or procured by the distillation of wood. Also pyrolignous.

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

  • adjective (Old Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, the acid liquid obtained in the distillation of wood, consisting essentially of impure acetic acid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Produced from wood by the action of heat, especially by destructive distillation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation

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