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durains

durains is the plural of durain.

Meaning of durain

Noun

durain (countable and uncountable, plural durains)

  1. A type of coal.
    • The comparative absence of durain in many American coals caused some confusion in early attempts to correlate the English and American systems of nomenclature, since the duller portions of the American coals were at first compared with the English durains, whereas they should have been compared...1954, Wilfrid Francis, “The Coal Series—Terminology, Structure and Petrology”, in Coal: Its Formation and Composition, London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., →OCLC, page 262

Questions about durains

What is durains the plural of?
Durains is the plural of durain.

Words near durains in the dictionary

  1. durae
  2. durae matres
  3. durag
  4. durags
  5. durain
  6. durains
  7. durak
  8. dural
  9. dural sinus
  10. dural sinuses
  11. dural venous sinus

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