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malm

/mɑːm/

malm noun: a soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.

Noun

malm (countable and uncountable, plural malms)

  1. A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.
  2. An artificial mixture of chalk, clay, and sand, from which light-brown or yellowish bricks are made.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Malm

Malm (plural Malms)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Malm

Malm

  1. An epoch from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago, a subdivision of the Jurassic.

Forms of malm

Noun
pluralmalms
Proper noun
pluralMalms

Origin of malm

From Middle English malme (“sand”), from Old English mealm (as in mealmstān (“sandstone”)), from Proto-Germanic *malmaz (“sand, ore”); related to Old Norse malmr (“ore, metal”). From the same Proto-Indo-European root as meal. Doublet of mulm.

Words formed from malm

Words that rhyme with malm

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Questions about malm

What does malm mean?
Malm means a soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.
What part of speech is malm?
Malm can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce malm?
Malm is pronounced /mɑːm/.
What is the plural of malm?
The plural of malm is malms.

Words near malm in the dictionary

  1. Mallwyd
  2. Mally
  3. Mallys
  4. Mallén
  5. mallín
  6. malm
  7. malmag
  8. malmags
  9. Malmaison
  10. Malmaisons
  11. malmal

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