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

1 sense of methane

Sense 1
methane -- (a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel)
       => methane series, alkane series, alkane, paraffin series, paraffin -- (a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2))
       => gas -- (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)