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PHOSGENE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("phosgene" is a kind of...):
gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)