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adeps

adeps noun: soft or liquid animal fat.

Noun

adeps (uncountable)

  1. Soft or liquid animal fat.
    Synonyms:
    lard

adeps meaning in Kannada

adeps in Kannada

ಹಂದಿಗೊಬ್ಬು

Synonyms of adeps

Origin of adeps

Unadapted borrowing from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).

Questions about adeps

What does adeps mean?
Adeps means soft or liquid animal fat.
What is adeps in Kannada?
Adeps in Kannada is ಹಂದಿಗೊಬ್ಬು. See Adeps meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is adeps?
Adeps is a noun.

Words near adeps in the dictionary

  1. adephagan
  2. adephagans
  3. Adephagia
  4. adephagous
  5. adepithelial
  6. adeps
  7. adept
  8. adepter
  9. adeptest
  10. adeption
  11. adeptist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adeps (page history and authors); adeps (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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