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heracline

heracline noun: a picrate compound used as an explosive.

Noun

heracline (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A picrate compound used as an explosive.

Origin of heracline

Ancient Greek, related to Hercules.

Questions about heracline

What does heracline mean?
Heracline means a picrate compound used as an explosive.
What part of speech is heracline?
Heracline is a noun.

Words near heracline in the dictionary

  1. Heracles
  2. Heraclid
  3. Heraclidae
  4. Heraclidan
  5. Heraclids
  6. heracline
  7. Heraclitan
  8. Heraclitanism
  9. Heraclitans
  10. Heraclitean
  11. Heracliteanism

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