creosotes

noun

A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.

A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.

(countable) The creosote bush.

A flammable black porous brittle glassy byproduct of wood burning, typically formed inside chimneys.

verb

(transitive) To apply creosote.

Roots

kreascreo- · Greek · flesh sozo-sote · Greek · preserve, save

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