Word Meanings - FORMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A salt of formic acid.

Related words: (words related to FORMATE)

• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• FORMIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether. Amido formic acid, carbamic acid. -- Formic acid, a colorless, mobile liquid, HCO.OH, of a sharp, acid taste,
• FORMICATION
  A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison. (more info) an ant, to feel as if ants were crawling on one's self, fr. formica
• FORMICA
  A Linnæan genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.
• FORMICID
  Pertaining to the ants. -- n.