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percolators

percolators is the plural of percolator.

Meaning of percolator

Noun

percolator (plural percolators)

  1. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.
    • She heard the percolator bell ring.1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 176
  2. A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

Questions about percolators

What is percolators the plural of?
Percolators is the plural of percolator.

Words near percolators in the dictionary

  1. percolation theory
  2. percolations
  3. percolative
  4. percolatively
  5. percolator
  6. percolators
  7. percoll
  8. percolozoan
  9. percolozoans
  10. percomorph
  11. percomorphacean

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