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saran

saran noun: a plastic resin used to make packaging films.

Noun

saran (uncountable)

  1. A plastic resin used to make packaging films.

Proper noun capitalized: Saran

Saran (plural Sarans)

  1. A surname.
  2. A district of Bihar, India.

Forms of saran

pluralSarans

Origin of saran

From a trade name coined by the Dow Chemical Co. for a number of monomers and polymers made from vinylidene chloride (especially polyvinylidene chloride).

Various origins: * Borrowed from Polish Saran or Serbo-Croatian Šaran. * Borrowed from Hindi शरण (śaraṇ).

Words formed from saran

Phrases with saran

Questions about saran

What does saran mean?
Saran means a plastic resin used to make packaging films.
What part of speech is saran?
Saran can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near saran in the dictionary

  1. Sarakolle
  2. Sarala
  3. saralasin
  4. Saramacca
  5. Saramaccan
  6. saran
  7. Saran Division
  8. saran wrap
  9. saran-wrap
  10. saran-wrapped
  11. saran-wrapping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saran (page history and authors); Saran (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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