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creosote
[ kree-uh-soht ]
noun
- an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
verb (used with object)
- to treat with creosote.
creosote
/ ˈkrɪəˌsəʊt; ˌkrɪəˈsɒtɪk /
noun
- a colourless or pale yellow liquid mixture with a burning taste and penetrating odour distilled from wood tar, esp from beechwood, contains creosol and other phenols, and is used as an antiseptic
- Also calledcoal-tar creosote a thick dark liquid mixture prepared from coal tar, containing phenols: used as a preservative for wood
verb
- to treat (wood) with creosote
creosote
/ ŧ′ə-ō′ /
- A yellow or brown oily liquid obtained from coal tar and used as a wood preservative and disinfectant.
- A colorless to yellowish oily liquid containing phenols, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, especially from the wood of a beech, and formerly used as an expectorant in treating chronic bronchitis.
Derived Forms
- creosotic, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ··dz· [kree-, uh, -, sot, -ik], adjective
- ܲ·o·dze adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of creosote1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of creosote1
Example Sentences
The landscape is vast and rugged, a mish-mash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of gray and brown under a deep blue sky.
Amid the Joshua trees and creosote bushes, she recorded the sounds of the makeshift foundry.
Dashiell, 43, steps in close to enjoy a creosote bush’s telltale aroma of black tar and sand after a storm.
They include creosote bush, desert lavender, apricot mallow, desert bluebells, milkweed and more.
Most people experience the Mojave’s widely spaced small shrubs and creosote bushes through the windshield of an air-conditioned car as they drive between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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