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hectads

hectads is the plural of hectad.

Meaning of hectad

Noun

hectad (plural hectads)

  1. A unit of land area, ten by ten (that is, a hundred) square kilometres, often used for assessing how widely distributed particular animals or plants are.
    • Those taxa that show interesting distributions have been mapped and included here, their maps incorporating earlier records made by Laflin and others from 1958 to 1968 which had been based only on localities with hectad grid references.1998, John Killick, Alan Roy Perry, Stan[ley Reginald John] Woodell, The Flora of Oxfordshire, [Newbury, Berkshire]: Pisces Publications, →ISBN

Questions about hectads

What is hectads the plural of?
Hectads is the plural of hectad.

Words near hectads in the dictionary

  1. hect-
  2. hecta-
  3. hectacre
  4. hectacres
  5. hectad
  6. hectads
  7. hectagon
  8. hectagons
  9. hectane
  10. hectanes
  11. hectarage

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