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lardiness

lardiness noun: the quality of being lardy.

Noun

lardiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being lardy.
    • The packers and consumers object to the short, thick animals because of their excess lardiness and to the rangy ones because of their large cuts.2006, Palmer Joseph Holden, Swine Science, page 93

Origin of lardiness

From lardy + -ness.

Questions about lardiness

What does lardiness mean?
Lardiness means the quality of being lardy.
What part of speech is lardiness?
Lardiness is a noun.

Words near lardiness in the dictionary

  1. lardies
  2. lardiest
  3. Lardil
  4. lardiner
  5. lardiners
  6. lardiness
  7. larding
  8. larding down
  9. larding needle
  10. larding needles
  11. larding up

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