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malo

malo noun: malolactic fermentation.

Noun (1)

malo (uncountable)

  1. (informal) malolactic fermentation
    • Allowing a wine to undergo malo also protects it from bacterial contamination later.2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook

Noun (2)

malo (plural malos)

  1. A Hawaiian loincloth.

Proper noun capitalized: Malo

Malo (plural Malos)

  1. A surname.

Forms of malo

Noun
pluralmalos
Proper noun
pluralMalos

Plural of malo: malos

Origin of malo

Shortening of malolactic.

Questions about malo

What does malo mean?
Malo means malolactic fermentation.
What part of speech is malo?
Malo can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of malo?
The plural of malo is malos.

Words near malo in the dictionary

  1. malnutrition
  2. malnutritional
  3. malnutritioned
  4. malnutritions
  5. Malnutt
  6. malo
  7. malo animo
  8. Malo-Russian
  9. Malo-Russians
  10. Malobago
  11. malobathrum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malo (page history and authors); Malo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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