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Plural of quin

regular plural

The plural of quin is quins.

Forms of quin

Singularquin /kwɪn/
Pluralquins
Countablecountable

Quins in a sentence

  • Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution, page 104

Meaning of quin

  1. noun A quintuplet.
  2. noun A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.

Full definition of quin

Questions about the plural of quin

What is the plural of quin?
The plural of quin is quins.
Is quin countable?
Quin is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quin (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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