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THYMIC ACID

Dictionary entry overview: What does thymic acid mean?

• THYMIC ACID (noun)
The noun THYMIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. a colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic

Familiarity information: THYMIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• THYMIC ACID (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

thyme camphor; thymic acid; thymol

Hypernyms ("thymic acid" is a kind of...):

phenol (any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds; molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups)

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