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bituminoid

bituminoid adjective: resembling bitumen.

Adjective

bituminoid (comparative more bituminoid, superlative most bituminoid)

  1. Resembling bitumen.

Noun

bituminoid (countable and uncountable, plural bituminoids)

  1. A substance or material resembling bitumen.

Forms of bituminoid

Adjective
comparativemore bituminoid
superlativemost bituminoid
Noun
pluralbituminoids

Origin of bituminoid

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

Questions about bituminoid

What does bituminoid mean?
Bituminoid means resembling bitumen.
What part of speech is bituminoid?
Bituminoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bituminoid in the dictionary

  1. bituminizations
  2. bituminize
  3. bituminized
  4. bituminizes
  5. bituminizing
  6. bituminoid
  7. bituminoids
  8. bituminosulfonate
  9. bituminosulfonates
  10. bituminous
  11. bituminous coal

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