FORMIC ACID as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • 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
    Hypernyms(s) formic acid is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower