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carplane

carplane noun: a vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane.

Noun

carplane (plural carplanes)

  1. A vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane.
    • Outside Bedrock headed for a carplane stop in a meditative mood.1951, Alfred Elton Van Vogt, The weapon shops of Isher
    • Unlike some other fictional portrayals of future family life — which simply place traditional family structures in a high-tech futuristic setting of carplanes, fully automated appliances, interplanetary civilizations, and robot servants […]2002, David M. Newman, Elizabeth Grauerholz, Sociology of families

Forms of carplane

pluralcarplanes

Origin of carplane

From car + plane.

Questions about carplane

What does carplane mean?
Carplane means a vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane.
What part of speech is carplane?
Carplane is a noun.
What is the plural of carplane?
The plural of carplane is carplanes.

Words near carplane in the dictionary

  1. carpintero
  2. carpinteros
  3. Carpio
  4. carpipramine
  5. carpitis
  6. carplane
  7. carplanes
  8. carplike
  9. Carpmael
  10. Carpo
  11. carpo-

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