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bauxites

bauxites is the plural of bauxite.

Meaning of bauxite

Noun

bauxite (countable and uncountable, plural bauxites)

  1. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
    • A thin red stream poured down one of the rises, snaking its way around trees; a river turned red with bauxite?2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 152

Questions about bauxites

What is bauxites the plural of?
Bauxites is the plural of bauxite.

Words near bauxites in the dictionary

  1. bauvericin
  2. Baux
  3. Baux score
  4. Baux scores
  5. bauxite
  6. bauxites
  7. bauxitic
  8. Bauza
  9. Bauzas
  10. Bav
  11. Bava Metzi'a

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