pyroligneous

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PYROLIGNEOUS, PYROLIGNIC, PYROLIGNOUS, adjective [Gr., fire; Latin , wood.] Generated or procured by the distillation of wood; a term applied to the acid obtained by the distillation of wood.
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