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GASOHOL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn
Classified under:
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)
