creosotes

Noun

creosote (countable and uncountable, plural creosotes)

1. A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
2. A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
3. (countable) The creosote bush.
   • On Shaw Butte, as elsewhere in the Phoenix area, creosotes are abundant, producing a plethora of small yellow flowers in late March and April.1994, John Alcock, Sonoran Desert Summer, page 88
4. A flammable black porous brittle glassy byproduct of wood burning, typically formed inside chimneys.

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