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bituminoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bi-tu-mi-noid
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling bitumen.

noun

A substance or material resembling bitumen.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From bitumen (using its Latin oblique stem bitumin-) + -oid.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more bituminoid (comparative) most bituminoid (superlative) bituminoids (plural)

Synonyms

bitumenoid

Questions

What does bituminoid mean?
Resembling bitumen.
Where does bituminoid come from?
From bitumen (using its Latin oblique stem bitumin-) + -oid.

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