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paraffins

paraffins is the plural of paraffin.

paraffins is the third-person singular simple present indicative of paraffin.

Meaning of paraffin

Noun

paraffin (countable and uncountable, plural paraffins)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
    • She poured paraffin on the dry floors and on the pandanus-mats, and then she set fire.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 57”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    kerosene
  2. Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
  3. Paraffin wax.

See all 5 meanings of paraffin

Questions about paraffins

What is paraffins the plural of?
Paraffins is the plural of paraffin.

Words near paraffins in the dictionary

  1. paraffinizing
  2. paraffinoid
  3. paraffinoma
  4. paraffinomas
  5. paraffinomata
  6. paraffins
  7. paraffiny
  8. paraffle
  9. paraffles
  10. parafibromin
  11. parafibular

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