| NOUN | substance | benzoate | any salt or ester of benzoic acid |
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| Meaning | Any salt or ester of benzoic acid. | |
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| Narrower | benzoate of soda, sodium benzoate | A white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic |
| Broader | salt | A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
| Spanish | benzoato | |
| Catalan | benzoat | |
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