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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

furfur

bran +

ole

um oil.]

(Chem.)

A colorless oily liquid,

C4H3O.CHO

, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; – called also

furfural

furfurol ‎(countable and uncountable, plural furfurols)