phlorol

English

Etymology

Noun

phlorol (usually uncountable, plural phlorols)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phlorol”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)