Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun formic_acid

1 sense of formic acid

Sense 1
formic acid -- (a colorless pungent fuming vesicatory liquid acid HCOOH found naturally in ants and many plants or made catalytically from carbon monoxide and steam; used in finishing textiles and paper and in the manufacture of insecticides and fumigants)
       => acid -- (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)