methane

English Thesaurus

1. a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	gas,
definition	:	a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin, paraffin series,
definition	:	a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	marsh gas,
definition	:	methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	gas, natural gas,
definition	:	a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes (noun.substance)