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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A commercial name of a mixture of crude cresol and high-boiling hydrocarbons. It is used as a disinfectant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic (
medicine ) A dark brown oilycompound containingphenol ,creosol , and otherhydrocarbons such ascoal tar products, used as a disinfectant.
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