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thickenings

thickenings is the plural of thickening.

Meaning of thickening

Noun

thickening (countable and uncountable, plural thickenings)

  1. The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
  2. A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
  3. A thickened part of a structure.
    • […] the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts […]1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6

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Questions about thickenings

What is thickenings the plural of?
Thickenings is the plural of thickening.

Words near thickenings in the dictionary

  1. thickening ring
  2. thickening time
  3. thickening times
  4. thickening up
  5. thickeningly
  6. thickenings
  7. thickens
  8. thickens up
  9. thicker
  10. thicker around the middle
  11. thicker than a Snickers

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