wood alcohol

See also: wood-alcohol

English

Etymology

Originally manufactured by the destructive distillation of wood.

Noun

wood alcohol (countable and uncountable, plural wood alcohols)

1. (organic chemistry) The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.

   Synonym: wood spirit

Translations

methanol — see also methanol,‎ methyl alcohol

• Bulgarian: метилов алкохол (metilov alkohol)
• Catalan: alcohol de fusta m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木醇 (zh) (mùchún)

• Finnish: puusprii (fi), metanoli (fi)
• French: alcool de bois (fr) m
• German: Holzgeist (de) m (literally “wood spirit”)
• Hungarian: faszesz (hu)
• Icelandic: tréspíri m
• Romanian: spirt de lemn (ro) n
• Russian: древе́сный спирт m (drevésnyj spirt, literally “wood spirit”)
• Swedish: träsprit (sv) c
• Ukrainian: деревни́й спирт m (derevnýj spyrt, literally “wood spirit”)