BENZOATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any salt or ester of benzoic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "benzoate"):

benzoate of soda; sodium benzoate (a white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic)