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plarn

plarn noun: plastic yarn made from strips of plastic bags.

Noun

plarn (uncountable)

  1. Plastic yarn made from strips of plastic bags.
    • Collect plastic bags and sort and store them by color until needed, then make plarn from the sorted pile.2013, Leslie B. Preddy, School Library Makerspaces: Grades 6–12, page 50
    • The loops are then tied together, forming a long, double string of plarn.2018, Jenny Baker, Use It, Wear It, page 13

Origin of plarn

Portmanteau of plastic and yarn.

Questions about plarn

What does plarn mean?
Plarn means plastic yarn made from strips of plastic bags.
What part of speech is plarn?
Plarn is a noun.

Words near plarn in the dictionary

  1. plaquette
  2. plaquettes
  3. plaquing
  4. PLARF
  5. Plaridel
  6. plarn
  7. PLAs
  8. Plascencia
  9. Plascencias
  10. Plasencia
  11. Plasencias

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