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pellets

pellets is the plural of pellet.

pellets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pellet.

Meaning of pellet

Noun

pellet (plural pellets)

  1. A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
    • a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
  2. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  3. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
  4. A roundel sable (black circular spot).
    Synonyms:
    ogress
  5. One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

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Phrases with pellets

Questions about pellets

What is pellets the plural of?
Pellets is the plural of pellet.

Words near pellets in the dictionary

  1. pelletizing
  2. pelletless
  3. pelletlike
  4. pelletron
  5. pelletrons
  6. pellets
  7. Pellett
  8. pellettable
  9. pelletted
  10. Pelletts
  11. pelletty

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