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saleratuses

saleratuses is the plural 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 saleratuses

What is saleratuses the plural of?
Saleratuses is the plural of saleratus.

Words near saleratuses in the dictionary

  1. Salento
  2. salep
  3. saleps
  4. saler
  5. saleratus
  6. saleratuses
  7. salering
  8. salerings
  9. Salerno
  10. saleroom
  11. salerooms

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