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meadowfoam

meadowfoam noun: any of the plants in the genus Limnanthes, flowering annuals native to the western US, especially white meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba), which is grown for the oil in its seeds.

Noun

meadowfoam (countable and uncountable, plural meadowfoams)

  1. Any of the plants in the genus Limnanthes, flowering annuals native to the western US, especially white meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba), which is grown for the oil in its seeds.
  2. (uncountable) The industrially useful oil produced by Limnanthes alba.

Forms of meadowfoam

pluralmeadowfoams

Origin of meadowfoam

From meadow + foam.

Questions about meadowfoam

What does meadowfoam mean?
Meadowfoam means any of the plants in the genus Limnanthes, flowering annuals native to the western US, especially white meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba), which is grown for the oil in its seeds.
What part of speech is meadowfoam?
Meadowfoam is a noun.
What is the plural of meadowfoam?
The plural of meadowfoam is meadowfoams.

Words near meadowfoam in the dictionary

  1. meadowbeauty
  2. Meadowbrook
  3. Meadowcroft
  4. Meadowcrofts
  5. meadowed
  6. meadowfoam
  7. meadowfoams
  8. meadowgrass
  9. Meadowhall
  10. meadowhawk
  11. meadowhawks

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