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melamines

melamines is the plural of melamine.

Meaning of melamine

Noun

melamine (countable and uncountable, plural melamines)

  1. A strong aromatic heterocyclic base, triaminotriazine, used in combination with formaldehyde to manufacture melamine resins; any such resin, such as Formica
    • My room was everything I expected it to be—cold and cheerless, with melamine furniture, grubbily matted carpet and those mysterious ceiling stains that bring to mind a neglected corpse in the room above.1995, Bill Bryson, chapter 20, in Notes from a Small Island

Questions about melamines

What is melamines the plural of?
Melamines is the plural of melamine.

Words near melamines in the dictionary

  1. melamed
  2. Melameds
  3. melamine
  4. melamine resin
  5. melamine resins
  6. melamines
  7. melaminylthioarsenate
  8. melamphaid
  9. melamphaids
  10. melamphid
  11. melamphids

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