carbinol

car·bi·nol

[kahr-buh-nawl, -nol]
noun
2.
an alcohol derived from methyl alcohol.

Origin:
1860–70; < German Karbinol, equivalent to Karbin methyl (karb- carb- + -in -in2) + -ol -ol1

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carbinol car·bi·nol (kär'bə-nôl', -nōl')
n.
See methanol.

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Carbinol is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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