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inheritance powders

inheritance powders is the plural of inheritance powder.

Meaning of inheritance powder

Noun

inheritance powder (countable and uncountable, plural inheritance powders)

  1. (historical) Any of several poisons used for murder, but especially arsenic and, to a lesser extent, thallium.
    • `Arsenic was very popular in the old days [...] Inheritance powder, they called it. Pure, deadly, white, dissolves in any weak acid.'2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 316

Questions about inheritance powders

What is inheritance powders the plural of?
Inheritance powders is the plural of inheritance powder.

Words near inheritance powders in the dictionary

  1. inheritage
  2. inheritages
  3. inheritance
  4. inheritance law
  5. inheritance powder
  6. inheritance powders
  7. inheritance tax
  8. inheritance taxes
  9. inheritances
  10. inherited
  11. inherited audience

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