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doeglings

doeglings is the plural of doegling.

Meaning of doegling

Noun

doegling (plural doeglings)

  1. A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.
    • This acid is, moreover, not combined with oxide of lipyl in the Doegling train-oil, (at least it yields no glycerine on saponification,) but probably with doeglic oxide, C₂₄H₂₅O, a body similar to the ether-like haloid bases, whose existence and composition Scharling, however, only infers from the...1851, Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, Physiological Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 116

Questions about doeglings

What is doeglings the plural of?
Doeglings is the plural of doegling.

Words near doeglings in the dictionary

  1. Doege-Potter syndrome
  2. Doeges
  3. doeglic
  4. doeglic acid
  5. doegling
  6. doeglings
  7. Doehring
  8. Doehrings
  9. doeing
  10. doeings
  11. doek

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