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desiatin

desiatin is the alternative form of dessiatina.

Meaning of dessiatina

Noun

dessiatina (plural dessiatinas or dessiatiny)

  1. A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
    • The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth.1849 July, “The Observatory at Pulkowa”, in The North American Review, volume 69, number 144

Forms of desiatin

pluraldesiatins

Questions about desiatin

What is desiatin the alternative form of?
Desiatin is the alternative form of dessiatina.

Words near desiatin in the dictionary

  1. desialylated
  2. desialylates
  3. desialylating
  4. desialylation
  5. desialylations
  6. desiatin
  7. desiatina
  8. desiatinas
  9. desiatins
  10. desiatiny
  11. desiccant

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