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ekranoplan

ekranoplan noun: a ground-effect vehicle.

Noun

ekranoplan (plural ekranoplans)

  1. a ground-effect vehicle

Forms of ekranoplan

pluralekranoplans
alternative formekranoplane

Origin of ekranoplan

Borrowed from Russian экранопла́н (ekranoplán), itself derived from экра́н (ekrán, “screen”) as used in экранный эффе́кт (ekrannyj effékt, “ground effect”), from French écran, + the root of French planer (“to glide, to hover”).

Questions about ekranoplan

What does ekranoplan mean?
Ekranoplan means a ground-effect vehicle.
What part of speech is ekranoplan?
Ekranoplan is a noun.
What is the plural of ekranoplan?
The plural of ekranoplan is ekranoplans.

Words near ekranoplan in the dictionary

  1. ekpwele
  2. ekpweles
  3. ekpyroses
  4. ekpyrosis
  5. ekpyrotic
  6. ekranoplan
  7. ekranoplane
  8. ekranoplanes
  9. ekranoplans
  10. Ekron
  11. Ekronite

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