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onionskins

onionskins is the plural of onionskin.

Meaning of onionskin

Noun

onionskin (countable and uncountable, plural onionskins)

  1. A thin, strong, light, translucent paper; used especially for making carbon copies.
    • I heard the dry-leaf rustle of onionskin papers.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 406
    Synonyms:
    onion paper
  2. A kind of marble with swirls of color on the outside.

Questions about onionskins

What is onionskins the plural of?
Onionskins is the plural of onionskin.

Words near onionskins in the dictionary

  1. onionlike
  2. onions
  3. onionseed
  4. onionseeds
  5. onionskin
  6. onionskins
  7. oniontini
  8. oniontinis
  9. onionweed
  10. onionwood
  11. oniony

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