Meaning

1 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A 10% solution of formaldehyde in water.

    a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens

Examples

1 sentences

  1. This guy is such an idiot that when he dies we'll have to preserve him in formol.

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Forms

plural: formols
Singularformol
Pluralformols

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Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens:formalin

Word family

2 related words
Relatedformalin
Derivedtriformol

Lessons for this word

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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