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mountants

mountants is the plural of mountant.

Meaning of mountant

Noun

mountant (plural mountants)

  1. (microscopy) The medium used for mounting a slide
    • Both mountants can be placed on the same slide, with spores placed in each.2004, Cletus P. Kurzman, Jack W. Fell, “Yeasts”, in Biodiversity of Fungi, →ISBN, page 335
  2. (dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount
    • The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, reprint edition, published 1964, →ISBN, page 365

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Questions about mountants

What is mountants the plural of?
Mountants is the plural of mountant.

Words near mountants in the dictionary

  1. mountaintops
  2. mountainward
  3. mountainwards
  4. mountainy
  5. mountant
  6. mountants
  7. Mountbatten
  8. Mountbatten pink
  9. Mountbatten pinks
  10. Mountbatten-Windsor
  11. mountboard

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