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hair-salt

hair-salt noun: a habit of epsomite which occurs as silky, hair-like fibers.

Noun

hair-salt (countable and uncountable, plural hair-salts)

  1. (dated) A habit of epsomite which occurs as silky, hair-like fibers.

Forms of hair-salt

pluralhair-salts
alternative formhair salt

Origin of hair-salt

Calque of German Haarsalz.

Questions about hair-salt

What does hair-salt mean?
Hair-salt means a habit of epsomite which occurs as silky, hair-like fibers.
What part of speech is hair-salt?
Hair-salt is a noun.
What is the plural of hair-salt?
The plural of hair-salt is hair-salts.

Words near hair-salt in the dictionary

  1. hair-pulling disorder
  2. hair-raiser
  3. hair-raisers
  4. hair-raising
  5. hair-raisingly
  6. hair-salt
  7. hair-salts
  8. hair-shirt
  9. hair-shirted
  10. hair-shirts
  11. hair-splitter

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