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Plural of nub

regular plural

The plural of nub is nubs.

Forms of nub

Singularnub /nʌb/
Pluralnubs
Countablecountable

Nubs in a sentence

  • The Sand Squink possesses an amazing ability to generate electric charges by touching the tip of its bushy tail to either of the nubs at the tips of its ears.1998, W. Haden Blackman, The Field Guide to North American Monsters, page 144. From the entry squink

Meaning of nub

  1. noun The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon.
  2. noun A small knob or lump.
  3. noun The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.

Full definition of nub

Questions about the plural of nub

What is the plural of nub?
The plural of nub is nubs.
Is nub countable?
Nub is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nub (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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