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

1 sense of pyridine

Sense 1
pyridine -- (a toxic colorless flammable liquid organic base with a disagreeable odor; usually derived from coal)
       => base, alkali -- (any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia")