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salæratus

salæratus is the obsolete form of saleratus.

Meaning of saleratus

Noun

saleratus (usually uncountable, plural saleratuses)

  1. (usually) Sodium bicarbonate.
    • She spent nearly two hours firing up the oven and trying to raise a loaf of wheat bread with saleratus, the only leavening she could find.1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 31
  2. (usually) Potassium bicarbonate.

Questions about salæratus

What is salæratus the obsolete form of?
Salæratus is the obsolete form of saleratus.

Words near salæratus in the dictionary

  1. Salzmann
  2. Salzmanns
  3. Salzmans
  4. Salzwedel
  5. Salzwedels
  6. salæratus
  7. Salé
  8. saléeite
  9. saléeites
  10. sam
  11. Sam Brown belt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: salæratus (page history and authors); saleratus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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