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floatant

floatant is the alternative form of flotant.

Meaning of flotant

Adjective

flotant (not comparable)

  1. Represented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water.
    • a banner flotant

See all 2 meanings of flotant

Noun

floatant (plural floatants)

  1. A chemical agent applied to a fly to make it float on the water.
    Antonyms:
    sinkant

Antonyms of floatant

Forms of floatant

pluralfloatants

Origin of floatant

From float + -ant.

Questions about floatant

What does floatant mean?
Floatant means a chemical agent applied to a fly to make it float on the water.
What is floatant the alternative form of?
Floatant is the alternative form of flotant.
What part of speech is floatant?
Floatant is a noun.
What is the plural of floatant?
The plural of floatant is floatants.

Words near floatant in the dictionary

  1. floatability
  2. floatable
  3. floatables
  4. floatage
  5. floatages
  6. floatant
  7. floatants
  8. floatation
  9. floatations
  10. floatbase
  11. floatbases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floatant (page history and authors); flotant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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