PHOSGENE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("phosgene" is a kind of...):

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

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