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petrol-electric

petrol-electric adjective: describing a hybrid engine or vehicle that uses a combination of petrol and electricity.

Adjective

petrol-electric (not comparable)

  1. (UK) Describing a hybrid engine or vehicle that uses a combination of petrol and electricity.

Questions about petrol-electric

What does petrol-electric mean?
Petrol-electric means describing a hybrid engine or vehicle that uses a combination of petrol and electricity.
What part of speech is petrol-electric?
Petrol-electric is an adjective.

Words near petrol-electric in the dictionary

  1. petrol sniffers
  2. petrol station
  3. petrol stations
  4. petrol tank
  5. petrol tanks
  6. petrol-electric
  7. petrolaeum
  8. petrolage
  9. petrolatum
  10. petrolatums
  11. petrolea

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