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WOOD TAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wood tar" is a kind of...):
natural resin (a plant exudate)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood tar"):
pine tar (a dark viscous substance obtained from the destructive distillation of pine wood)