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goldbeater's skins

goldbeater's skins is the plural of goldbeater's skin.

Meaning of goldbeater's skin

Noun

goldbeater's skin (countable and uncountable, plural goldbeater's skins)

  1. The outer membrane of the caecum in a cattle.
    • The Comstock laws that forbade the importation of contraceptives were never enforced against goldbeater's skins or their molds, so that throughout the decades when the laws against reproductive control were most stringently enforced a constant supply of materials ready to be turned into condoms was...1997, Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century America, →ISBN, page 208
    Synonyms:
    gold skin

Questions about goldbeater's skins

What is goldbeater's skins the plural of?
Goldbeater's skins is the plural of goldbeater's skin.

Words near goldbeater's skins in the dictionary

  1. goldband lilies
  2. goldband lily
  3. goldbands
  4. goldbeater
  5. goldbeater's skin
  6. goldbeater's skins
  7. goldbeaters
  8. goldbeating
  9. Goldbeck
  10. Goldbecks
  11. Goldberg

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