GASOHOL

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does gasohol mean? 

• GASOHOL (noun)
  The noun GASOHOL has 1 sense:

1. a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn

  Familiarity information: GASOHOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASOHOL (noun)

Meaning:

A gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("gasohol" is a kind of...):

fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)

hydrocarbon (an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen)

Meronyms (substance of "gasohol"):

gas; gasolene; gasoline; petrol (a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines)

ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol (the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline)