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pissasphalt

pissasphalt noun: a soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.

Noun

pissasphalt (uncountable)

  1. A soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
    • These minerals are intimately incorporated with all asphaltum, pissasphalt and petroleum. […] The impregnated sand, A to B, has a nearly horizontal lamination, but is contorted in places by the ascent of the pissasphalt.1893, Scientific American: Supplement, volume XXXVI, Petroleum and Asphalt in California, page 14739

Forms of pissasphalt

alternative formpisasphaltum
alternative formpisasphalt

Origin of pissasphalt

Borrowed from Latin pissasphaltus, from Ancient Greek πισσάσφαλτος (pissásphaltos), from πίσσα (píssa, “pitch”) + ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, “asphalt”).

Questions about pissasphalt

What does pissasphalt mean?
Pissasphalt means a soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
What part of speech is pissasphalt?
Pissasphalt is a noun.

Words near pissasphalt in the dictionary

  1. pissaladières
  2. pissant
  3. pissants
  4. pissaphone
  5. pissaphones
  6. pissasphalt
  7. pissass
  8. pissbabies
  9. pissbaby
  10. pissbag
  11. pissbags

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